The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language” — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has had anything to do with the higher diplomacy is aware that diplomatic language stands in a class by itself.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the… — Paul Kantner Copy Share Image
“Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone :… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Whenever I sing in a different language, I make sure I have a language expert sitting there with me to correct my… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
'Being Cyrus' is very young in language or grammar. I am not saying that these things can't be achieved in Hindi. All… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. People love talking, and I have never been a huge… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“But things change, people change - as do perceptions of people, and now I answer in a language that I hope my… — Ali Harris Copy Share Image
French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“New languages are not something you can pick up overnight. They take time. Patience. The willingness to change the way you think… — Jessica Brody Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Soap operas are a world where rich people always have chandeliers and hip people have striped hair and the language that they… — Bronson Pinchot Copy Share Image
“The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street… — Denis Lavant Copy Share Image
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
