top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
Author Name
Personal Development
"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
Author Name
Personal Development
"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."
Success
"Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."
Money
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
Future
"It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true."
Dream
"The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it."
Success
"The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing."
Language
"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."
Success
bottom of page