“When all are one sentience, Language withers and fades away. Let's sit together and speak in silence, Let's be light to each… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.” — Gil Asakawa Copy Share Image
...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Words are wonderful gifts given to our voice, they may often become noise; but silence is always golden, it gives us power… — Chinmoy Sarkar Copy Share Image
While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm… — Psy Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that… — Steve Hackett Copy Share Image
“I have learned to avoid this. The goal is to communicate, not to impress readers with your vocabulary.” — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
“She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do… — Peter Hermann Copy Share Image
“It’s a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While… — Margaret Leis Hanna Copy Share Image
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
I found that something exists between director and actor sometimes that surpasses or transcends language. — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
“I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.” — John Green Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that… — Cheris Kramarae Copy Share Image
I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
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