I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our… — Jussi Lehtisalo Copy Share Image
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
“Language, the homeland and receptacle of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not.… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of… — Thomas Newkirk Copy Share Image
I had a very 'colorful' language, and every time I went to say something, Michael would cut me off with words like… — Debbie Rowe Copy Share Image
I think if we can't use the word feminist, if it's some kind of taboo or dirty word, or means you're ugly,… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
“Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution… — Arthur F. Holmes Copy Share Image
Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit daughter of Heavenly Father who… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning… — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. Now I understand that I've gotten to enjoy things that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“It's probably the closest thing resembling research I ever do (except for this last book, which took more traditional research) - listen… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
OK, so we all know that 'Borat' is humiliatingly, career-endingly unfunny (one trick too many for one-trick pony Sacha Double-Barelled) - but… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“And Dimble, who had been sitting with his face drawn, and rather white, between the white faces of the two women, and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Format is just the language. Content is the only thing that is important. Form is like handwriting. Whether you write in a… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand. I waited. But Grace, the only person in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image