Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen -… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This… — Suzanne Ciani Copy Share Image
Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any… — Alan Brewer Copy Share Image
As for the French language, it's probably one of the most beautiful in the world. I speak a little bit and I… — Charlene, Princess of Monaco Copy Share Image
“I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“MANY believe in what others say. Don't analyse the meaning of words, nor the whole sentences, phrases or other linguistic classifications” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image
You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
“As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Language is a piss poor attempt at telepathy is what it is. We try to put our thoughts into each other's heads… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
“This is my attempt to make sense of the period that followed, weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about:… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“... words are just words, but the meanings they carry, the way the world bends around them, that's what's complicated.” — M. King Copy Share Image
Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Language should not be a barrier for an actor; I want the world to see my work and not limit it to… — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson. — Earl Weaver Copy Share Image
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The truth!" we demanded. "Oh, the truth," she stammered, "the truth has nothing to do with literature," and sitting down she refused… — Virgina Woolf Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
I overuse words. My kids catch me saying stuff. They're like, 'Hey, you say that all the time.' 'Boom' is one of… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
I know the meaning of the word, I know I'm not a real number nine but also I don't see me as… — Kai Havertz Copy Share Image
I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language. — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words,… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
“Empty words are like droplets of rain pattering upon the ground. It is difficult to find a single feature that distinguishes one… — Richard Cezar Copy Share Image
“Stories open the door to the darkened room. Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
