It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“He can talk!" "Yes, I can speak any language you want, fly, and breath fire." Air Raid said proudly. "Can you do… — Jennifer Priester Copy Share Image
“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a… — Zoketsu Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
A dream set would include songs by other artists like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and other favorites. More obscure Heart songs like… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
You see Bill Clinton, and you say: Oh, this guy cares about me. Hillary Clinton isn't the same way. You see her,… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“John said, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14). John was particularly emphatic on this matter in… — Millard J. Erickson Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
I built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“The main thing I want to show in this chapter is that there is no magic involved in building your own language.… — Marijn Haverbeke Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think,… — F. David Peat Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we… — Louise Hart Copy Share Image
“There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“She had imagined her mind would be bare before his, naked under a scorching desert sun, with neither shelter nor refuge. Instead,… — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“What type of sentence (I asked myself) will an absolute mind construct? I considered that even in human languages there is no… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“That's just like the manual says," said Witherwax. "If we want to have international brotherhood, we gotta get a language that everybody… — Fletcher Pratt Copy Share Image
The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't… — Jake Garn Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Words mean nothing. They are like the husks of the coffee Bean. They cover what is essential, which is the bean itself,… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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