I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter,… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
