The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up.… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I hear from so many women who really started to pay attention to it at all times and stopped, you know, touching… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
In order to make Alma innocent and open, I had to forget that I'm stressed as an actress because I'm making a… — Vicky Krieps Copy Share Image
I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in… — Anton Newcombe Copy Share Image
“. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
“No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made-up game in… — DeLillo Don Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“…it is certain that there are many things to which our language ascribes meaning indicative of a material substance, where simple contemplation… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
“We lawyers do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane… — Richard C. Wydick Copy Share Image
“Whatever belonging to the region of thought and feeling is uttered in words, is of necessity uttered imperfectly. For thought and feeling… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan,… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
The important thing is to be able to understand anyone who has something useful to say. - There is a general moral… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I was always shy. Writing was my only outlet. Because I always hid in a room, I spent a lot of time… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Language is the rich fabric that enshrouds all experience that is truly human. Those who are hyperpolyglots therefore adorn multiple layers of… — Usman W. Chohan Copy Share Image
