An act goes much farther than a word will ever travel. Even when someone is silent, in different situations this silence is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The future belongs to social media. It is egalitarian and inclusive. Social media is not about any country, any language, any colour,… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
“Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You will say things with a merry tongue; you are not one for graceless words and no one will take offence. I… — Noella Menon Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed.… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
In the Sapient tongue he said softly, ‘Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?’ ‘Is it?’ Sapphique replied in the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
“The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“political correctness. The history of this concept is as wild and unruly as the conversations about it have become. At this point,… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Funny things, words. Big words, small words; words that are bigger on the inside and packed tight with feeling. They can make… — Maggie Harcourt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see my students, especially the ones with a gift for the lyrical, reaching far outside the realm of their own… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“A disrespectful young woman," she said. "Something I was called more than once. Something every woman of quality is called sooner or… — rachel caine Copy Share Image
“I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Culture is so much faster and so much more effective than anything else. If you go on a march, you march for… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design.… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
Cooking with your kids is a remarkable exercise to let them in on the purchasing part of the process - kids love… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music,… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
When you sit players in front of doctors and surgeons, they use big, fancy words, and sometimes players get lost. It's hard… — Harry Kewell Copy Share Image
“My words were Egyptian hieroglyphics before the discovery of the Rosetta stone; my words were wounded soldiers limping home, guns spent, from… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject;… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication.… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Java the language is almost irrelevant. It's the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I've seen compilers for ML, compilers for… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
