In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary,… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do… — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image
In the deaf community, we give people name signs based on their quirks or characteristics. So it means you can't really give… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you… — Barbara Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
It took a pretty drastic moment to shift my thinking towards visual arts. I got to a moment in my writing career… — Truong Tran Copy Share Image
What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, the likes of which she… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
“Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels… — Andrew Zuckerman Copy Share Image
I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Bears, it turns out, are a lot like humans. They form alliances with strangers, they make calculations about relative costs and benefits,… — Benjamin Kilham Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have a vocabulary for what he did to me, but then no one had been able to define the man… — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Occupy did something fabulous. What Occupy made clear was that there is an inequality at the heart of American democracy that undermines… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I must confess the language of symbols is to me A Babylonish dialect Which learned chemists much affect; It is a party-coloured… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
“Language, after all, is impersonal and personal, particular and general, both inside us and outside us, and James writes with a profound… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
“was simply this (it needed to be simple; the afternoon was too far advanced for complicated rules): someone would say the name… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Trump's hobbled vocabulary is now the incontestable stuff of comedy: not just how few his words but how narrow their range, from… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech.… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
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As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but… — Eugene A. Nida Copy Share Image
![“[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges…” quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/062/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-671_birth_he-understood-the-people-in-a-new-way-th_897711.jpg)
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