“Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows in what state… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If I say look unless you change your leaders I will not give you any aid, you are likely to have people… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future.… — Charles H. Moore Copy Share Image
President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill.… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language.… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
“Chomsky'S grammaticality, the cate gorical S symbol that dominates every sentence, is more fundamentally a marker of power than a syntactic marker:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
I was from a Tamil-medium school, and my peers were English speakers, so it was intimidating. But I was aware that English… — Chef Damu Copy Share Image
“What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, ma not become picturesque through aerial distance? What hymning of cancerous vices may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I became aware of the overwhelming role of language in contemporary politics shortly before the 9/11 attacks. At that time, the word… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human… you are generous,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature,… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
I worry these days that Latinos in California speak neither Spanish nor English very well. They are in a kind of linguistic… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
“Do I scare you?” “Yes.” She blurted out the word before she could stop it. “It’s just you’re so…” “Awesome. Magnificent. Virile.”… — Eve Langlais Copy Share Image
Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what,… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
“All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for… — Stan D. Jensen Copy Share Image
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no… — Bruce Eckel Copy Share Image
