Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
“...but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?"… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“This is the pre-verbal language that linguists call Mentalese. Hardly a language, more a matrix of shifting patterns, consolidating and compressing meaning… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that,… — Lee Kuan Yew 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
“Language allows us to represent autobiographical events in the past, present and future; we can imagine events that have not yet happened,… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
“One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“From that original colony sprang seven names that still feature on the landscape: Roanoke (which has the distinction of being the first… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness,… — Scott Sanders Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
“I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.'… — Leslie Scalapino Copy Share Image
Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature 'adding to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“For instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
“A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings.… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
“What a powerful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
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