When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
You know that wherever you go, not everyone will speak your language. But go and experience the local culture and try to… — Steve McManaman Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Words are never frail. They have all the powers to change the personality and features of a man. The way he relates… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
“ ineffable , adj . these words will ultimately end up being the barest of reflections, devoid of the sensations words cannot… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Fate is what it was. Yes, fate that the book I had with me was a novel written by my great-grandfather, a… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is landscaping. I love landscaping. And so what I'll do is, mostly I put language into search engines, and… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“The only distinguishing characteristic of a literature professor at the millennium was that he or she wrote about other people's writing. Apart… — James Hynes Copy Share Image
The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
I mean, it was a rough place ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and you had to wear this kind of cloak that you were… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
“Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If we learn to listen to the others and try to capture the soul of their language, and can scent the fragrance… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding.… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
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