I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
TikTok gives an artist a voice. I'm very careful to be very authentic on there - everything I do comes from me,… — Laufey Copy Share Image
“In the beginning the word was with God; all explanations, physical and moral, rested on the divine. And now for storytellers, even… — Jill Patton Walsh Copy Share Image
“it strikes me that the writers most deeply concerned with the state of literary fiction and its biases against women could do… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
“A truly enlightened attitude to language should simply be to let six thousand or more flowers bloom. Subcultures should be allowed to… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure… — Avery Sunshine Copy Share Image
“I fell in love the moment I saw her in her grandfather's kitchen, her dark curls crashing over her Portuguese shoulders. 'Would… — Dan Rhodes Copy Share Image
Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They’re too weak to make it from shore to… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“If we speak only our primary language and encounter someone else who speaks only his or her primary language, which is different… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We're bombarded with images. Take the time to stop and look at something then connect with them and maybe they're thinking the… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
My earliest memory is having my grandfather, who was born in 1899, read the newspaper to me in a foreign language. I… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but… — Pierre Klossowski Copy Share Image
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds.… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Some of my best friends are tattooed from head to toe. Some would never think of it. Some are rocking a mullet… — Travis Pastrana Copy Share Image
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“I mutter and mutter and no one to listen. I speak my words in Japanese and my daughter will not hear them.… — Hiromi Goto Copy Share Image
The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B,… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
“If we hear a Chinese we tend to take his speech for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“People of very different opinions--friends who can discuss politics, religion, and sex with perfect civility--are often reduced to red-faced rage when the… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
