“Lexium (TM): Trouble with limited vocabulary? These slow-release capsules are imbued with the latest in infra-cerebral nanobots that will gradually encode your… — Kane Faucher Copy Share Image
In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution… — Ernest L. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor.… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Centers of trade and colonialism—which tend to develop near large bodies of water for reasons both obvious and occulted—tend toward the polylingual… — Greg Stolze Copy Share Image
“What fascinated me about English was what I later recognized as its hybrid etymoogy: blunt Anglo-Saxon concreteness, sleek Norman French urbanity, and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's nothing wrong with it. I don't instinctively know what's wrong with it. There is a language of the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“English the differences between things and actions are clearly, if not always logically, distinguished, but a great number of Chinese words do… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing," Frances informs her niece. "That's why language… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Estonia maintains a two-language school system. I don't know many countries in the world that provide a system like ours. We are… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding,… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
The main issue when it comes to hiring someone from Asia is the language barrier. It's difficult to book someone when they… — Karen Fukuhara Copy Share Image
Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Be kind to our language: avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Evoke at painful junctures, when discouragement threatens to raise its head, the image of a vast cretinous mouth, red blubber and slobbering,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was… — Maria de Medeiros Copy Share Image
What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Why do I always have to be the one who says 'stop'?" I demanded, my voice little more than a moan. "You… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In… — Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Copy Share Image
People always say that music is a universal language. It was very, very true. We could show up anywhere with any people… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title.… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are… — Marija Gimbutas Copy Share Image
We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other… — Karl Barry Sharpless Copy Share Image
“..perhaps all our lovers are merely hints and symbols; vagabond languages scrawled on gate-posts and paving stones along the weary road that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The king sent word, at odd intervals, inquiring as to Meralda's progress. She would scrawl hasty replies in return, often suppressing the… — Frank Tuttle Copy Share Image
Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better… — McKenzie Wark Copy Share Image
I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are.… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“There is a love for structure in them that I recognize, and a desire to worship correctness that I know and I… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that… — George Steiner Copy Share Image