Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would… — Steve Whitmire Copy Share Image
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
“I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling… — Virginia Lee Copy Share Image
That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from… — Jaap Stam Copy Share Image
There are more than thousand mother tongues spoken in our country. This is not just a number but a reason to be… — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
“If I could write words Like leaves on an autumn forest floor, What a bonfire my letters would make. If I could… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You have to speak in a language everyone can understand and see themselves in, and you also have to speak to the… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
Music has no language. That's something I've come to believe in even more ever since 'Kolaveri Di' happened. I don't deliberately make… — Anirudh Ravichander Copy Share Image
“Fiancé. Americans had simply adopted a pronunciation from the French to sugarcoat the sticky implication of the word: Constrained. Bound. Trapped.” — Stephanie Bond Copy Share Image
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin. — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
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