To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
It's always exciting when you work on a show that's written by one person because you know that their vision is so… — Jessalyn Gilsig Copy Share Image
“In order for the thoughts of one brain to be intelligible to another, the thoughts need to be decomposed and packaged into… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“I don't fall for words, I fall for action because words always carry empty promises but one step at a time is… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Person, Place, Thing (Noun); Describes Action (Verb); Modifies Nouns (Adjective); Answers the W Questions (Adverb); Joins Words Together (Conjunction); Things We Say… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?’ enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over. ‘One long difficult word… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“The Spirit of God uses the Word of God to work in our lives. Read Colossians 3:16—4:1 and you will see a… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. From the dog owners… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“only after we have understood what means he had of saying anything can we understand what he meant to say, what he… — J.G.A. Pocock Copy Share Image
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages...… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
English may be the fastest moving language in the world, but there are plenty of concepts, sensations and everyday occurrences which lack… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no… — Rasmus Lerdorf Copy Share Image
“Dad says there are more than three thousand letters in the Japanese alphabet, which could pose a problem. There are only twenty-six… — Rin Chupeco Copy Share Image
The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Gamely had gotten a letter through, inviting them to visit as soon as they could, and reporting that, in these years… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“I don’t think in any language. I think in images. I don’t believe that people think in languages. They don’t move their… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The script [of Regression] wasn't the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro [Amenabar] and his way of talking. To hear him… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image