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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just… — James Welch Copy Share Image
I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The only intelligible language in which we converse with one another consists of our objects in their relation to each other. We… — Melchor Lim 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
“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
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“It's not entirely absurd to think that somewhere in the past of mankind someone, for the first time, did in his mind… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn't bad... I mean getting people to… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition; and if you're not jovial but… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best,… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Sadly - and I think this is why it's so important that we do this more - I don't have that guiding… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand… But until… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.' 'It… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
