When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
“accept the Word of Scripture and ponder it in your heart, as Mary did. That is all. That is meditation.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer,… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“I wish I could find words--serious, beautiful words--to describe it in the afternoon sunlight; the more I strive for them, the more… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
My position in football was cornerback, and what your job is as a cornerback is to read the person that's in front… — Nnamdi Asomugha Copy Share Image
We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
“All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had… — Alfonso Soriano Copy Share Image
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad,… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech. — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Your words are very powerful, because they have the power to either inspire growth or to cause destruction. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . . — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Music is very subjective. You may or may not like a song, but folk and regional language have a connectivity that binds… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who… — Tim Cameron Copy Share Image
“The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.” — Alessandro Volta Copy Share Image
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me — Chow Yun-Fat Copy Share Image
A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling,… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
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