And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And… — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our… — Anthony Principi Copy Share Image
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Oak... lasts for an unlimited period when buried in underground structures... when exposed to moisture... it cannot take in liquid on account… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car,… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined.… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
There is something particularly appealing about teaching a subject that seems to deal with the lowest kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you… — Guido Calabresi Copy Share Image
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
It's incredible, once you start studying industry structure and see how much consolidation there has been across industries - in airlines, contact-lens… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language… — Steve Cosson Copy Share Image
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image