I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“He laid a hand on my shoulder. “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“It is to be hoped the time will come, thank God, in some circles it already has, when language is best used… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Music is the great unifier. It doesn’t matter which country you’re in or what language is being spoken, the fans just magically… — J.M. Nevins Copy Share Image
I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression?… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“How can you gain a full understanding of a subject when you don't understand the words used to explain it? Well, that's… — Michael Matthews Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of… — Selma Fraiberg 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
“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using… — Andrew Dalby Copy Share Image
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
“Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason,… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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