“Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he… — Jean Little Copy Share Image
“Everybody complains that politics separates words from their meanings, and this is part of the reason why. Words are useful, but often… — Barton Swaim Copy Share Image
“Horchow's daughter, Sally, told me a story of how she once took her father to a new Japanese restaurant where a friend… — Malcom Gladwell Copy Share Image
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Consider the term Mother Tongue. In Russian the term is Rodnoi-yazyk, which means Nearest or Dearest Tongue. At a pinch one could… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“I think that if you use the so-called "strong words" you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“When a pebble falls down a well, it is gratifying to hear the eventual plunk. If, however, the pebble only slips into… — Mark Z. Danielewski's Copy Share Image
So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“19. THE WALL OF DICTIONARIES BETWEEN MY MOTHER AND THE WORLD GETS TALLER EVERY YEAR Sometimes pages of the dictionaries come loose… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Look into words for the tomb of space where beauties & stones & eternities untangle. (...) In them is the flood which… — MTC Cronin Copy Share Image
“And sometimes words become objects of interest in themselves. Suddenly we notice them. We see and hear them the way poets do,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Virtually, Finnish woods are stripped so bare, so sold out and first and foremost, so long way off from genuine diverse natural… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there are too many examples of members of Congress and other elected officials using language, referring to your opponents in ways… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous, but they are intimately allied. They… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Knowledge about society is thus a realization in the double sense of the word, in the sense of apprehending the objectivated social… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. False Eloquence, like the Prismatic… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to… — Jean Aitchison Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
