“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Like many things that are claimed as Western inventions, grammar was first practiced in the East. According to scholars, there is a… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
The indexing problem changes with each new book undertaken. To meet the needs of different classes of seekers and to suit various… — Hans H Wellisch Copy Share Image
“I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like… — Constance Dejong Copy Share Image
It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“This is the Southland burr, the only distinctive regional accent in the country. It's a soft appealing noise, deriving, I presume, from… — Joe Bennett Copy Share Image
“Words ruin one's thoughts, paper makes them ridiculous, and even while one is still glad to get something ruined and something ridiculous… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
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I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which… — Ben Watt Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
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Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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“the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?” This… — Philip Smith Copy Share Image
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
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(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
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I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
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In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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