You don't do things for shock value anymore, because that's not even the language of today. At least, that's not what interests… — Italo Zucchelli Copy Share Image
If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions,… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders,… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves… — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts,… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Words and emotions are simple currencies. If we inflate them, they lose their value, just like money. They begin to mean nothing.… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one… — Hailey Gates Copy Share Image
Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?" "I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful and dangerous things - uttered in an instant, yet lasting for an age. They touch the heart, change the… — Shae Ford Copy Share Image
I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
...Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't… — Jim Calhoun Copy Share Image
Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into… — Rita Leganski Copy Share Image
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
“I can see the…seams where they’re put together. And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself,… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Actually, that's one of the things I like most about my job: There isn't much of a day-to-day. For example, last week,… — Jeremy Hansen Copy Share Image
“Never discount another man's faith just because it is dressed in another language foreign to your own. Language can be used as… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image