“In this our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest n…”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“"I gotta have a swamp too. Gotta have a swamp. Either a Swamp, our a marsh full of marshmallows. MARSHmallows"”— Dane Cook, genius.com
“Frequency of use of words like ‘I ’ or ‘me’ have been associated in previous studies with lack of forthrightness.”— Ephrat Livni, qz.com
“My father one told me that the very word "paradise" meant garden, spelling out for me the four letters (pe resh dalet samech) of pardes, the Hebrew word for garden.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.”— Daniel Tosh, amazon.com
“Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.”— Kim Jonghyun, goodreads.com
“my english is broken. on purpose. you have to try harder to understand me. breaking this language you so love is my pleasure. in your arrogance you presume that i want your skinny language. that my mouth is building a room for it in the back of my throat. it is not. --i have seven different words fo…”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“No, wait: fat is beautiful. No, wait: thin is beautiful, too, as long as you don’t work for it. No, wait: All women are beautiful! As though we are toddlers who must be given exactly equal shares of princess dust, or we’ll throw a tantrum.”— Kristi Coulter, thoughtcatalog.com
“An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythms, by effort that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.”— Henri Matisse, en.wikiquote.org
“A linguistics professor at Harvard was lecturing his class the other day. He said, " in English, a double negative forms a positive. However, in some other languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can exp…”— jg1190_jz, reddit.com
“Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,—all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“You are a language I am no longer fluent in but still remember how to read.”— Ashe Vernon, amazon.com
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“You are a language I am no longer fluent in but still remember how to read.”— Ashe Vernon, amazon.com
“I think of how, in Czech, 'to paint' and 'to love' are only one vowel away: malovat; milovat. The salution alone is written. I paint you, I paint you, I paint you.”— Emily Wilson, thebohemyth.com
“I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we’ll never meet. It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com