That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? … Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain our languages,… — Noel Pearson Copy Share Image
Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world… — Max Picard Copy Share Image
Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
There are more and more adult subjects with explicit language or explicit scenes... Yes, I feel there should be a category for… — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
“English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels the way Spanish was.… — Cristina Henriquez Copy Share Image
I was educated in London at Central Saint Martins and had this whole thing about getting together with a lot of international… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me.… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
My publication, 'The Post,' has taken the initiative to translate many of my pieces and publish them in Arabic. For that, I… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
“If, however, we pursue what is expressed in the phrase 'the language of things', we are pointed in a similar direction. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“...only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“He compiled lists of old words too – words of a precision and suggestiveness that no longer had a meaningful application in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I’d never traveled in this world. But I loved this world. And I would love it even more once I learned how… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Words have an immense power over people. Words represent ideas and thoughts. No matter what anyone says, we all care, to a… — Alison G. Bailey Copy Share Image
“By their dependence on the spoken word for information, people were drawn together into a tribal mesh . . . the spoken… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
For me making friends with locals is hard, mostly because my lack of Vietnamese language skills and being retired I have limited… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For me, as an immigrant who didn't speak the language, when I would have struggles as a kid, my dad would say,… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
To use biblical language, those who exchange the glory of God for something in creation will also exchange the image of God… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Good” has been used for almost a thousand years as an adverb, even though usage commentators and peevers have condemned this use.… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Once, a man at the customs duty check at the Delhi Airport asked me a question in Hindi, and I told him… — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
If you're not geographically diverse, it's hard to even speak a language that makes sense to folks in faraway places. That's especially… — Steve Bullock Copy Share Image
I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
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