I make the case in the book that Standard English, that language we all aspire to live and move and have our… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals. — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the… — Corey Flintoff Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in. — Buddy Holly Copy Share Image
You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way. — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave.… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind,… — Teresa Jordan Copy Share Image
It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. — Tanya Tucker Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
“Still, what can thoughtful people and humanists do but struggle toward suitable words? Take me, for instance. I've been writing letters helter-skelter… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.” — David Kyuman Kim Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. — Plato Copy Share Image
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there,… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years,… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I mean, just the safety position, linebackers, you have to be able to communicate. You can't do sign language out there. You… — Patrick Chung Copy Share Image
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