I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to… — Paul Crouch Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
I talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities… — Vittorio Storaro Copy Share Image
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction… — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
When I'm looking for a leader who's gonna sit across the negotiating table from a nuclear Iran, or who's gonna be intent… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest… — John Ayto Copy Share Image
“How many words are you having trouble with, sir?" "Just the ones that I've highlighted." "I count at least a dozen, and… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of film is camera cuts, it's how they communicate. But games are different. We don't really need to do that.… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand… But until… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
When I finally came to the United States, I was forced to get a job right away. I spoke no English -… — Anastasia Soare Copy Share Image
The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
