In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore.… — Denis Boyles Copy Share Image
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“language is precisely designed to be a self-identifying category of institutional facts. The” — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Everybody deserves to be seen and to be heard. Regardless of whether that is your culture, your language, who you love, your… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
“Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows in what state… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I earn the magic of words by writing. I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Driving home, I heard the explosion and thought it was a new story born. But, Adrian, it’s the same old story, whispered… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you – apart from their meaning – a thrill like music?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The beauty of music is that it is a universal language. I truly believe it knows no boundaries of any kind. — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I imagined I had discovered a new word. I rise up in bed and say, "It is not in the language; I… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
George Washington said, "All I am, I owe to my mother." That's so true. My mom pushed me to get in politics.… — Andrea Tantaros Copy Share Image
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more… — John Green Copy Share Image
