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
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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
“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
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
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
“The 'Dance of Love' is much more of a dialogue, one takes the lead and the other follows. One dictates a step… — Olaotan Fawehinmi Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguity seems to be an… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
“It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture,… — Dean Barnlund 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
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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
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
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
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
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“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
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Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.” — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often underestimated. They could heal. They could destroy." from Onyx” — Jennifer Armentrout 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
Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
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