“No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
“…it is certain that there are many things to which our language ascribes meaning indicative of a material substance, where simple contemplation… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in… — Anton Newcombe Copy Share Image
“. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hear from so many women who really started to pay attention to it at all times and stopped, you know, touching… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
In order to make Alma innocent and open, I had to forget that I'm stressed as an actress because I'm making a… — Vicky Krieps Copy Share Image
I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up.… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
If anyone has the opportunity to work with that woman, jump at it. She is the most generous, most giving director I… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“My people? Who are they? I went into the church where the congregation Worshiped my God. Were they my people? I felt… — Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni Copy Share Image
“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When Mr. Miyamoto says easy, he doesnt mean simple. He means easily -- this is the difficulty of the language here. Its… — Eiji Aonuma Copy Share Image
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
