“The genius of apartheid was convincing people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other. Apart hate, is what it… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of.… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
“Lest anyone dispute that the Bible is not the inspired Word of God but rather the direct and dictated Word of God,… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
“What emerged for me as purpose was the search for and cultivation of possibilities for experiencing meaningful human transactions in different languages… — Daniel G. Campos Copy Share Image
“I went to the lobby and asked Stan what he knew about the person who lived in 6A. He said 'Never seen… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years.… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
“roots of historical Babylon are given to us in Genesis 10 where we learn that one of Noah’s sons, Ham, had a… — John Price Copy Share Image
So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Aztec peasants, Babylonian shepherds, Athenian stonemasons, and Carolingian merchants spoke different languages,2 wore different clothing, and prayed to different deities, but they… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. Made… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Mma Ramotswe had been thinking a great deal recently about how people might be fitted in. The world was a large place,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“In my heart, I knew that Whorf was right. I knew I thought differently in Turkish and English - not because thought… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages. — Matthew Morrison Copy Share Image
New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you… — Santiago Cabrera Copy Share Image
I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one… — Ashraf Barhom Copy Share Image
Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang… — MF Doom Copy Share Image
If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I can swear in sixty-seven different languages. But I can apologize in only three, which means I could get beat up in… — Matt Greene Copy Share Image
“It's just a whisper of a kiss but something collapses in my skull. It's a feather-light brush of his mouth against my… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“There is no right or wrong; there is no one truth, there are lots of truths. And you girls should translate the… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
My brain can form thoughts that come out through my mouth. The problem is sometimes I stumble the words because I speak… — Cesaro Copy Share Image
If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized.… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“At the same time, Wari and Tiwanaku kept themselves separate. Although they shared resources, there is little evidence that people from one… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Now tell me, but briefly, without wearying me, why you have come." "He sent me." "What did he bid you tell me,… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“I spent all day wandering up and down the hallways, staring at the Mona Lisa and Canova’s 'Psyche and Cupid' and the… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“The sun is at the horizon now, and the sky streaks with reds and golds. The whole world seems to be wearing… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing… — Inbar Lavi Copy Share Image
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to… — David Finkelstein Copy Share Image