Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak… — Dexter Filkins Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons anti-immigration state laws start to happen is they happen in states where there is an enormous… — Rilla Askew Copy Share Image
You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you.… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is… — Franz Rosenzweig Copy Share Image
A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Words fail.... As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language,… — Ramon C. Sunico Copy Share Image
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Putin imagined it would be different. So, like many Russian leaders before him, he imagined that Ukraine was basically Russia, but they… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“the end of the day we’re all animals. We need to be shown our pee ell a see ee. A little clarity… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more elaborate and the more… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
“There can be no substitute for a personal study of the Word of God! Daily devotionals, Bible commentaries, and recorded messages by… — Pedro Okoro Copy Share Image
From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts;… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
“Have you heard," he said "that many of our people believe if you know five colloquial expressions in their tribal language, they… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
“All night he either traversed his apartment with an agitation equal to that, which anxiety had so lately inflicted, or composed and… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are faces which charge with a meaning and pathos not belonging to the single human soul that flutters beneath them, but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
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