It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The longest word in the english language is the one that follows the phrase, 'And now a word from our sponsor'. — Hal Eaton Copy Share Image
“Words would not decscribe what I'm seeing. I try to hold my tongue but it's useless. She makes my heart scream color.” — Barcelona Copy Share Image
The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grapsed, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a… — Chuang Tzu Copy Share Image
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“Lilac makes on occasion a sound between a sniff and a snort that's as damning as all improper words in the language… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
India is like Europe. This means there isone currency and numerous languages andcultures. And this is a 'Europe' made up ofvarious cultures. — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“Parlabane found the word 'pro-active' enormously useful, as it immediately exposed the speaker as an irredeemable arsehole, whatever previous impression might have… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
.. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“These descriptions do really state the truth- as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. But language is a treacherous thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“[Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often given young writers -- namely, that… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
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“Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
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No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You pass a poem to the audience through the words as embodied literally by the rest of your human form. And the… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
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All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language. — Henry Jenner Copy Share Image
It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the… — Giles Fraser Copy Share Image
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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