Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“I’m interested in [meteorology], but I’m more interested in gross misappropriations of the authoritative language of science. It feels rife with clarity,… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent,… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“We believe that information is an enlightening agent, but I can assure you it is not. We consume information, but we can’t… — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“When you master a language, you are given the key to a castle. What you’ll find inside depends on you.” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should… — Patrice O'Neal Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians,… — Fulcher of Chartres Copy Share Image
“During a conversation, it is better to have an understanding without words, than words without understanding.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and houses are, for conveyance, not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than… — John Gray Copy Share Image
I can't just tell the guys I want the ball, I have to do it with my body language. — LaMarcus Aldridge Copy Share Image
I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality,… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.” — Kiran Nagarkar Copy Share Image
“Kindness is not about words. It isn’t spoken. It is about action. Kindness is a deed.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
