And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When I was making my first record, I think I felt slightly trapped by my mind and my genre. I think in… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
To me, a revolutionary film is not a film about a revolution. It has a lot more to do with the art… — Tamer El Said Copy Share Image
When one wakes up in the morning, one's whole life is neatly laid out, consistent with the past, to the degree that… — James R. Swartz Copy Share Image
As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
There's an unspoken rule post-Cold War American Presidents have used when describing the awesome power of our nuclear arsenal; the more devastating… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul — George Crumb Copy Share Image
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Silent vows were broken and words that can't be taken back but you mean so much more to me. Than anything I've… — Killswitch Engage Copy Share Image
Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“That wasn't English she was speaking: it was the language of diplomacy.” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Language is the most powerful,convenient and permanent means and form of communication. — RMKATTA Copy Share Image
I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance — a fresh twist… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“I want to create a word that means “There’s probably a word for that,” but there’s probably a word for that.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
Ur going to come across people in ur life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But… — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
