The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Now the room has the contours and atmosphere of all rooms in which people stay awake talking. The fluorescent light is grainy,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not… — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image
For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner… — Kajal Aggarwal Copy Share Image
I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
“Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I feel if I'm playing an athlete, I know I have to prepare. I need to get that body language right, I… — Shraddha Srinath Copy Share Image
The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental illness in human beings.'… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“This is my song for Gabriel, The Angel of the Word, I've sung to you so many times, This time I may… — Philip Dodd Copy Share Image
It just seemed to me so utterly wrong to credit someone's work just for the fact that this someone migrated from one… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“We seek a metaphor for holy words that will return them to us once again as an ayfz hayim, a tree of… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing… — E. Smith Sleigh Copy Share Image
That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“They feed back exactly what is given them. Because they do not believe in words - words are for "typeheads," Chester Anderson… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English… — John Kani Copy Share Image
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
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