Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-'90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true?… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible.… — Fernando Vallejo Copy Share Image
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the… — Jeff Stilson Copy Share Image
I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature. I prefer to talk… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Musicals are written in English, and then we import them to Japan. When we translate them into Japanese, the sounds of the… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Second Sunday in Advent, December 10 THE WORD AMONG US: Spreading the Word Therefore, the Lord will give you a sign. The… — Guideposts Copy Share Image
What I find on the Internet is fascinating because whole subcultures are developing. And they really are cultures. They have their art… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world… — Charles Lambert Copy Share Image
Growing up was very interesting for me. If you were Haitian, people just automatically assumed that English was a second language. So… — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
I LOVE WAL-MART. I CONSIDER MY JOKES TO BE VERY JEUVINILLE. STUFF A 14 YEAR OLD WOULD LAUGH AT BECAUSE THATS THE… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language;… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“There is nothing hard for people to comprehend in Kalpop. Kalpop is music and the rhythm of the world. Music has words.… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
“Gradually, the concrete enigma I labored at disturbed me less than the generic enigma of a sentence written by a god. What… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
“Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in his book: When all of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
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