As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I certainly self-police my language depending on who I'm talking to. I try to be very careful about using filler words, about… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
There are all very different directors. Some are more specific, some are calmer than others when the pressure is on, some use… — E.J. Bonilla Copy Share Image
“Bears, it turns out, are a lot like humans. They form alliances with strangers, they make calculations about relative costs and benefits,… — Benjamin Kilham Copy Share Image
Here in the U.S. we do have a problem with a president Donald Trump who uses language in two distinctly destructive ways.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something difficult… — Annie Rogers Copy Share Image
Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“At first when you're learning a foreign language, what seems strange is that a different set of words exists for the things… — Stephanie Grant Copy Share Image
Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Language is not primarily informational but revelatory. The Holy Scriptures give witness to a living voice sounding variously as Father, Son and… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“...hear the language, this English, double-jointed as Bedivere's limbs. It only sounds awkward. In its ability to join one concept to another… — Parke Godwin Copy Share Image
“It's very, very subtle stuff, changing words and giving them a whole different meaning—it creates an artificial reality," said Walter. "What happens… — Janet Reitman Copy Share Image
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers,… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Gjerji raises his hand. In English he says, "I like to tell in the words of a great American philosopher what freedom… — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I LOVE WAL-MART. I CONSIDER MY JOKES TO BE VERY JEUVINILLE. STUFF A 14 YEAR OLD WOULD LAUGH AT BECAUSE THATS THE… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go… — David Mamet Copy Share Image