The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?'… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I have never heard the word brand used so often as I did around The Guardian. Brand was the magical word, particularly… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Are you really reading that, or are you just trying to show off?" I asked, lowering myself into the seat. He looked… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we… — Daniel C. Peterson Copy Share Image
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“The fateful law of human semiotics is this: that of all the objects in the entire Cosmos which the sign-user can apprehend… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When Nigeria actually gave me the call-up I thought 'oh, it's going to be a challenge, I don't go back there a… — Alex Iwobi Copy Share Image
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christmas and the New Year are actually two holidays, so there is a plural, which in the English language necessitates the use… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes,… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
I think as film actors we are comfortable on stage because we know what the audience expects. The only tricky part is… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking… — Linda Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication… Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I remember reading Dr. Seuss books, and he's rhyming so many words together and I just loved the way it sounded. It… — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language… — Catherine Doherty Copy Share Image
Once you learn to 'speak' money - which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest… — John Ayto Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
“ Words Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“The falsification of everything has been shown to be one of the characteristic features of our period, but falsification is not in… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
“Words have the power to transform the person Words have the power to heal the person Words have the power to break… — Srinivart Copy Share Image
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words,… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“If one adds a word to a blank sheet of paper but it's left on its own it means nothing. If it’s… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image