“In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it… — David Batchelor Copy Share Image
I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The internet, like social media, seems to me to depend on how you use it, where you spend your time on it.… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
“Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Everything has its way of speaking and telling things worth knowing. Even the little grass-blades have their way of saying things as… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Let there be no limit to what we take to God in prayer, so that there may be no limit to God's… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Words are words. People add meaning to words. Information is information. With words people add value to information. Words breathe life into… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
Most jokes are based on surprise. They take advantage of a confusion of language, or a twist in logic, or a contradiction… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
The hypothesis I wish to advance is thatthe language of morality is ingrave disorder… What we possess, if this is true, are… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me… — Arca Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility… — Shoshannah Stern Copy Share Image
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic. I know what I can do and what I can't do. I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify… — Dean Israelite Copy Share Image
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