You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages;… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“And at night, leaning against the frame of her window, Kate said the word aloud to herself for the pure pleasure of… — Zibby Oneal Copy Share Image
When I entered Bollywood, I didn't have any advantage over anyone. I didn't know how to act, I was not from the… — Jacqueline Fernandez Copy Share Image
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I caution against communication because once language exist only to convey information, it is dying. In news articles the relation of the… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“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
When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in… — John Loengard 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
“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote.… — Rob Riemen 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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
