We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of… — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
“If a man is only as good as his word, then I want to marry a man with a vocabulary like yours.… — Mindy Nettifee Copy Share Image
What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and… — Rick Hilles Copy Share Image
Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere… — C. K. Prahalad Copy Share Image
I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through… — Delta Burke Copy Share Image
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans)… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“Words fail… As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language,… — Ramon C. Sunico Copy Share Image
Modeling in Europe at the beginning of my career was pretty hard, with the constant traveling and uncertainty as to where I… — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
Bollywood is not a stepping stone to the West. I am extremely picky and in no hurry to sign a Hollywood film.… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
“We have followed the general practice in referring to the nominative form as a "case" among four other cases. However, some modern… — Alfred Mollin and Robert Williamson Copy Share Image
When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Come here, Grimaud," said Athos. To punish you for having spoken without leave my friend, you must eat this piece of paper:… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Language enables the left hemisphere to represent the world ‘off-line’, a conceptual version, distinct from the world of experience, and shielded from… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
The language of the mystics cannot meet the language of science and reason, but nevertheless in a world that craves experimental testimonies… — Rene Vouillaume Copy Share Image
If two-three films of mine release at the same time and if all of them feel like they are from the same… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless… — Claude Brown Copy Share Image
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I… — Gerard Nolst Trenité Copy Share Image
I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
“Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“To Alef, the letter that begins the alphabets of both Arabic and Hebrew- two Semitic languages, sisters for centuries. May we find… — Ibtisam Barakat Copy Share Image
“Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The heart of the objectivist tradition in philosophy comes directly out of the myth of objectivism: the world is made up of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For every job you require a kind of mindset. To be a teacher one should be knowledgeable. To be a software engineer… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
