Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces,… — Virgilia Peterson Copy Share Image
“[T]here is some other way of understanding and getting along with the process of nature than by translating it into words. After… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
“The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word.… — Harriet Doerr Copy Share Image
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
The next time you watch a villain or an actor whom you know to be a non-native speaker of the language, watch… — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It… — Lorna Simpson Copy Share Image
“Give me that mouth again, babe, then get outta here. "Is the word 'please' in your vocabulary?" "No, but you throw more… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I'll move back to Wales if and when I have children. I want them to speak the language I speak, but I… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
“All round me are words, and words and words, They grow on me like leaves, they never Seem to stop their slow… — Kamala Suraiyya Das Copy Share Image
David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I think our election proved to us that 'billionaire' is an incredibly magical word in our language in that people just defer… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
“Our sacred literature does not use obscure language, but describes most things in words clearly indicating their meaning. Therefore it is necessary… — Samson Raphael Hirsch Copy Share Image
You have the sweetest words that I heard, your words can make the crowd disappeared and can make the rainbow after the… — NO VOICE Copy Share Image
we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. So… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“When we are dealing with concepts like freedom and equality, it is essential to use words accurately and in good faith. So… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings.… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he… — Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh Copy Share Image
“It was the language that left us first. The Great Migration of words. When people spoke they punched each other in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“I imagined I had discovered a new word. I rise up in bed and say, "It is not in the language; I… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“This was the unbounded power of eloquence—of words—of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Before I discovered the concept of the 5 love languages, a bit of advice I was given was to become a student… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
I can't say that there's a common practice that has to do with pitch language or with the way pieces are put… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women… — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
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