“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches… — Albert Ellery Bergh Copy Share Image
“I suppose I shall start from the beginning. It appears that I'm utterly lacking in the knowledge of the basics. I mean,… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“The spectrum of hatred against “irregardless” might be unmatched. Everyone claims to hate the word “moist,” but the dislike is general and… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“at man’s height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about… — Judith C. Waller Copy Share Image
My natural state is one that's affected by the shortage of dopamine production in my brain. So my natural state is to… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“GoogleEarthlike soars his mind, through clouds where snowstorms brew; New York State has dropped away, and Massachusetts flew, and Newfoundland is ice-entombed… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's funny because you make a film to hold all your feelings and thoughts about something, and you've tried to say it… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
I try to approach the film medium as a novelist and the novel medium as a filmmaker on some level. It's that… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“this native people he lived with, deep in the jungle—their language had dozens of words for rain. Because it was so common… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The sea, tasted, drunk away, dreamed away. An hour soul-eclipsed. The next, an autumn light, offered up to a blind feeling which… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic -… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“More and more rules were added until people tried to standardise spelling in the eighteenth century - by which time the language… — Ben Crystal Copy Share Image
“Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who… — Lawrence Kaplan Copy Share Image
I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with 'Wicked', and I'd love to play Nala in 'The Lion King'. Some of the songs from 'The Lion King'… — Oti Mabuse Copy Share Image
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
When I left Leipzig I was thinking about my next step, and I want to stand in front of a new team,… — Ralph Hasenhuttl Copy Share Image
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish… — William Gass Copy Share Image
The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth,… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
