I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response.… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings.… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and… — John Lachs Copy Share Image
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If… — Polly Young-Eisendrath Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion...… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
You, my Brown Guard, will regard it as a matter of course that this German people should go only by the way… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words --… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
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I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation… The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began… — M. S. Golwalkar Copy Share Image
Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did.… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Dave Stark has taken the best of recent marketplace management concepts and married them to timeless biblical principles of leadership, translating business… — Jonathan Reckford Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to say something exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, because what you say… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
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I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations,… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a language in the world that everyone understood, a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Foreword: Life is tension or the result of tension: without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
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