The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Jay-Z is more naturally gifted. He didn't depend as much as 50 did on his personal story. Jay-Z has a great story,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to… — Paul Nouge Copy Share Image
Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we… — Yuliya Snigir Copy Share Image
“No one’s words can compete with this mercilessly powerful rain. The only thing that can compete with the sound of this rain,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos)… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
The more comprehensive your language is, the more likely people are to believe everything you're saying. It really just comes from the… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Now I’m really glad that I speak French, because, let’s face it, girls dig it when a guy speaks French. They call… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“On Saturday mornings during deliveries, I'd practice picking out new words in Jane Eyre, sounding out the ones that needed sounding out—and… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I think what's happening is that you're seeing change from existing and kind of a left right political paradigm to one that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
“Although, deep down, I think I had known this all along. I was not aware of the mechanism, but I had always… — Paul J. Newell Copy Share Image
Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
“Thus three conclusions emerge from the eye story: (1) it is easier to inherit a ‘vision acquisition device’ than a full-blown hard-wired… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or… — Andrew Denton Copy Share Image
It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language… — Elizabeth Perkins Copy Share Image
all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this,… — Olivia de Havilland Copy Share Image
“This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Ukraine is the closest country to us. We have always said that Ukraine is our sister country and it is true. It… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“in language man has placed a world of his own beside the other, a position which he deemed so fixed that he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
I think Canada deserves a forthrightly left electoral alternative. I don't see the advantage for our democracy in having a number of… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
“Trout sat back and thought about the conversation. He shaped it into a story, which he never got around to writing until… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't write poems with a purpose in mind, but I'd hope that some readers would find their experiences mirrored or articulated… — Deborah Landau Copy Share Image
“Length and stress are both mutated in an open area where language mobilizes a network of meaning using the open space as… — Charles Bernstein Copy Share Image
“She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.' 'Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image