Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color… — Carl De Keyzer Copy Share Image
“This, however, only shows that there is an ambiguity in the word is; a word which not only performs the function of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance — a fresh twist… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running,… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams.… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its… — Njabulo S Ndebele Copy Share Image
“The language of negotiation is primarily a language of conversation and rapport: a way of quickly establishing relationships and getting people to… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
With actors and directors, it's a conversation that you have. You have to learn each other's language and learn how to communicate… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it's increasingly difficult in our society to find the… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
My words mean nothing to me only if it was a plea I know I ain't no fool I know what I… — Alva Cloud Eagle Copy Share Image
Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Eddie Izzard is doing his show in French... Will he be able to fake ad-lib as well in other languages? He's been… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claim to be more… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Hyperpolyglots are not born, and they are not made, but they are born to be made. There is a finite subset of… — Michael Erard Copy Share Image
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's… — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
“Just as it looks as though the sun moves round the earth, so ordinary language seems to invert the relations between signifiers… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“Hey dawg, wassup?" he said, in the strange way that white talent agents from Los Angeles do in an attempt to sound… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The human face is the organic seat of beauty… It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“We speak, and write, in one of the most diverse, gloriously ecumenical tongues on the planet. In English, there is a word… — Jeff Deck Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image