Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
“I wanted to choose words that even you would have to be changed by Take the word of my pulse, loving and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left -… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“Says Robert Roth in Story and Reality: “For the Greeks . . . words were definitions. . . . For the Hebrews, on the contrary, words were descriptions.” 14” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“A young child does not give proper weight to words alone. His attention is secured when those words are punctuated by a… — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
I'm interested to branch out to Tamil because I know the language. If Bollywood happens, it will be a bonus, but I'm… — Naga Chaitanya Copy Share Image
“To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and… — Gianni Vattimo Copy Share Image
The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“There are several important remarks which can be made about this 'absolute emptiness' and 'absolute nothingness'. First of all, we now know,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Hmmm! well!!magic zz magic n it has no specific language dear!! it alwayz comes in a new language n gets mix with… — Sardar Hyder Abbas Copy Share Image
Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is… — Nahiyan bin Asadullah Copy Share Image
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to… — Jenifer Mohammed Copy Share Image
If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
It's pretty sad when a woman can't understand any language but the language of love forgetting the language of Patience and dedication — Miss Leto Copy Share Image
No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children… — William Labov Copy Share Image
Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says “We’re the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Subodh Gupta works because his artistic vocabulary is firmly rooted in the vernacular of everyday India. — David Linley Copy Share Image
Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
When evaluating the suitability of a woman for a role, or using certain language in job advertisements, biases can creep in. — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
“Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
