Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I was gradually coming to have a mysterious and shuddery reverence for this girl; nowadays whenever she pulled out from the station… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“A diplomat’s words must have no relation to actions—otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, actions another. Good… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit… — Carl Hagelin Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Darwin concluded that language ability is “an instinctive tendency to acquire an art,” a design that is not peculiar to humans but… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that… — Tony Leung Chiu Wai Copy Share Image
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I did three DVD's for 'Baby Einstein,' teaching babies how to sign. It really helps a parent communicate because babies can't talk.… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words… — Alain Finkielkraut Copy Share Image
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
By _Abracadabra_ we signify An infinite number of things. 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither?… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I think of time as I think of desire and language and our bodies; the distance between things and then things themselves,… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a… — Lauren Gibbs Copy Share Image
When the copulative kai ['and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal… — Granville Sharp Copy Share Image
Marking the differences between them was really important. It just became second nature. When we were choosing pajamas or something, instantly you'd… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In our midst, there are nations that still speak the language of terrorism, that nurture it, peddle it, and export it. To… — Sushma Swaraj Copy Share Image
“The first surprise is that people’s guesses are much more accurate than they would be by chance. I find this astonishing. A… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Studies have shown touch to be the primary language of compassion, love and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
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