People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“All For a Day" All day I have written words: My subject has been that. Words. And I am wrong. And the… — Robert Sward Copy Share Image
Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Language is important, I know, for the TV show, so a lot of people watches 'WWE' everywhere. Asia, Africa... some people don't… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Raphael looked like he might have laughed if he'd been younger and more cheerful. 'Why are you using the Jesuit dictionary?' 'How… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised. Words are probably older than the cave paintings in France, words… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When you speak words that are relevant to people, they automatically shut up and you know you are in the presence of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“You and I are so different: I am one word at a time one foot in front of the other, slowly, always… — Carlene Bauer Copy Share Image
Andy wasn't capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
“Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depends on how, when… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
“Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Words whose sense is the most ill-defined are sometimes those that possess the most influence. Such, for example, are the terms democracy,… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sancho is really very important to me. Not just because he comes from the same country as me or because he speaks… — Jude Bellingham Copy Share Image
Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience,… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
In the 16th and 17th centuries, most people in Britain lived in small village communities. They knew all their neighbours. They dressed… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
