Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender… — Moses Copy Share Image
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We do not know what lies ahead, yet whatever the challenge, leaders will rise, finding the heart, the language, the caring that… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
“In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“He’s a damned fine catch, and word on the grapevine says he’s a wonder in the sack. A walking, talking wet dream,… — Jess Haines Copy Share Image
Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are already trustless - any machine can accept it from any other, securely. They are (nearly) free. They are… — Naval Ravikant Copy Share Image
He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary. — Michel Thomas Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
