In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Like the positivists, Wittgenstein was hostile to metaphysics. But he attacked metaphysics not with a blunt instrument like the verification principle, but… — Anthony Kenny Copy Share Image
All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
“He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“If you've never studied German before or think you know nothing about it, you might be in for a little surprise. You… — Edward Swick Copy Share Image
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize… — Terry Winograd Copy Share Image
“For language to have meaning there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“...poor examples because of mechanical needs of typing, of the flow of river sounds, words, dark, leading to the future and attesting… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I always find that I'm less sarcastic in France and maybe I'm a bit more shy and a bit more reserved, even… — Freya Mavor Copy Share Image
I'm always fighting either to have a house work with us or to head a house. It's a lifestyle I can totally… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“And what do they talk about beyond the barricade, my little lad?” “Um…well, Justice an' Truth an' Freedom and stuff,” said Nobby.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is ‘grabbing a burger at the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“ Pandemic, Pangaea, Panacea, Panoply. Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
“That, too, was one of his rules: Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, Professor Uzzi-Tuzii had begun his oral translation as if he were not quite sure he could make the words hang together,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks… — Bobby Schilling Copy Share Image
“All use of speech implies convention and therefore at least duality of minds. The problem of communication through language may in this… — Robert Ellrich Copy Share Image
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
“Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that shes growing old, T is for the tears she… — Asheya Copy Share Image
There are four different kinds of power in a communication: position power (the CEO talking to her direct reports), emotion power (passion… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
