And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that… — Margaret Spellings Copy Share Image
If I have written anything, a person will comment using abusive language if they feel it's wrong. Why can't you relax and… — Divya Agarwal Copy Share Image
... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd. — Andre Bjerke Copy Share Image
Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Nothing as singular or as important had happened since the day of his birth. She returned his gaze, struck by the sense… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it.” — Yi Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What I want is to talk about how someone raised Muslim struggles with the same stuff that everyone else theoretically could. Obviously,… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Later, when his desires had been satisfied, he slept in an odorous whorehouse, snoring lustily next to an insomniac tart, and dreamed.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when a person is about to tell you something that's going to change your life, or make you cry, or make… — Rebecca Hahn Copy Share Image
