The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear,… — Josh Homme Copy Share Image
The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain…The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We… — James D. Nicoll Copy Share Image
There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
You might say that, if citizens are acting for the right reasons in a constitutional regime, then regardless of their comprehensive doctrines… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
“Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“At night, a few lights marked port and starboard of these gargantuan industrial forms, and I filled them with loneliness. I listened… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences,… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it… — Myron Uhlberg Copy Share Image
The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
The word; the forth-speaking of a thought, an idea, a truth, is the beginning of every new creation, or pulse of creation.… — Samuel Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers,… — Russ Rymer Copy Share Image
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The issue of who gets to define the future, own the nation's wealth, shape the parameters of the social state, control the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions. .. Try not to use words… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the… — Jeff Stilson Copy Share Image
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a melting pot, I try to speak British, but there's some European lilt - a not-so-conventional one because… — Eline Powell Copy Share Image
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
