Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“Are you deaf as well as blind, woman? I’m not a carpet to walk over, and I distinctly heard myself speak. If… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If the voice is compassionate, clear, straight, considerate, pure and kind,then it makes no difference whether the person is he or she.… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Driving home, I heard the explosion and thought it was a new story born. But, Adrian, it’s the same old story, whispered… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“The first thing any charlatan needs is nomenclature. A special language. Trappings. That's the true genesis of psychobabble terms such as 'disclosure'… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
Fashion matters to the degree that it is, for the sighted person, the first language we speak to each other. We are...… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways,… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
“There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be… — Kim Gruenenfelder Copy Share Image
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“Magic is the first language of the world. It was the language before words, before mathematics. Humanity can accept concepts like space… — Rosella Testa Copy Share Image
There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason,… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
I would not want to be in the same movement with an anarcho-syndicalist, however much I may respect and like that person.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“There is a writer in each one of us…it's only a matter of time before we put those emotions and experiences of… — Ariana Miller Copy Share Image
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Switching languages is a form of conversion. And like all conversions, whether it's judged a failure or a success, it excites the… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
The kind of songs I sing have been existing in Bollywood music since a long time. In fact, the reason my music… — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is… — Franz Rosenzweig Copy Share Image
“It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further… — Jean Aitchison Copy Share Image
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
