“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“When life seems like an uphill task do not ever give up on yourself or on life! Travel to a new place,… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
“You know, Lillian, someday I will sit down and write a little dictionary for you, a little Chinese dictionary. In it I… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth?… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“Their conversation is like a gently wicked dance: sound meets sound, curtsies, shimmies, and retires. Another sound enters but is upstaged by… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves.… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Wisconsin,'" Twiss said. "That's my word." "The word or the state?" Milly said. "Both," Twiss said. Twiss knew every dip and rise… — Rebecca Rasmussen Copy Share Image
The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“Native speakers can rarely explain the grammatical rules of their own language. In the same way, those who are most ‘fluent’ in… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and… — David Gregory Copy Share Image
As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But… — John Green Copy Share Image
I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so-… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“A whirlwind tour, I think, with each day starting in a different city, you wearing a different silk dress, tasting food the… — Lisa Mantchev Copy Share Image
“He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I see things in hardcopy that I miss if I only see words on screen. I do get sick of the words,… — Myriam Gurba Copy Share Image
Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the… — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
“For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or-to put the thing less… — E.M.Forster Copy Share Image
“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A local phrase book, entitled Speak in Korean , has the following handy expressions. In the section 'On the Way to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly. NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol,… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus. They can be magnificent… — Nicole Bonomi Copy Share Image
