…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“What was exchanged in the language of their eyes, more perfect than their lips, the language afforded the soul so that no… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
The opposition tried to brand us as the 'Ground Zero megamosque.' The language was deliberately wordsmithed in order to arouse hostility against… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we… — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
“In America: each year the day before school after summer vacation I sat on my bed touching my notebooks, pencils, ruler-holding the… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“To walk through unknown streets in cities where you are merely learning the language is to force yourself into a new state… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstruction and… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
There's vulnerability - so I have to make sure the audience is certain that I know what I'm doing. There's vulnerability there… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“ANNALS OF LANGUAGE WORD MAGIC How much really gets lost in translation? BY ADAM GOPNIK Once, in a restaurant in Italy with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Language could be used as an instrument of control, a way of establishing hierarchies that suggest one set of people is better… — David Crow Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama has a grasp of language and the presentation of language, particularly in times of crisis. And he did this over… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is, after all, the country that gave the world the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, the right to own property, the… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so… — Zach LaVine Copy Share Image
The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
English is still the unifying language in Sarawak and I use my blog and broadcasts to expose the outrageous deforestation which has… — Clare Rewcastle Brown Copy Share Image
An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
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