My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of 'American Idol' through text messages and the Web, then why… — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, Cyc has not… — Edward Feigenbaum Copy Share Image
It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves… — John B. Quigley Copy Share Image
Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction… — Deborah Lupton Copy Share Image
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
