“This Bitter Language I know your streets, sweet city, I know the demons and angels that flock and roost in your boughs… — Elka Cloke Copy Share Image
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“To satisfy themselves with this, they gladly grasp at words, especially those which denote indefinite, very abstract, and unusual concepts difficult to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
Even though we don't speak the same language, we're friends. I still make him laugh. You know it's hard to make Fedor… — Quinton Jackson Copy Share Image
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I've played with golfers who've… — Lucas Black Copy Share Image
Understanding Meronian - my own language - is a psychic process which succeeds when we break through the boundaries of comprehension and… — Jussi Lehtisalo Copy Share Image
When you're at the basketball court watching a game, one person may be talking about a fight he had with his wife,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is… — Edward Augustus Freeman Copy Share Image
Because I think it's so easy to look at someone, regardless of where they grew up, where they came from, the language… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
“How many words are you having trouble with, sir?" "Just the ones that I've highlighted." "I count at least a dozen, and… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
We just need more complex, important roles that tell our experiences as an immigrant; as someone with an accent, but also American;… — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“We always think of language as an immovable object, as this set of codified and unbreakable rules. But when you consider that… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“They jabbered amongst themselves in a bizarre jibberish that sounded like Spanish gone wrong: maybe gringo Spanglish, some kind of Espanahuatl that… — Ernest Hogan Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel… — Jean-Pierre Leaud Copy Share Image
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue).… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
“I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
When I meet fans who relate to Korean films and dramas even though they don't understand the language or the culture, and… — Lee Min-ho Copy Share Image
“When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone… — Charlotte Lamb Copy Share Image
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
