A lot of people have a fear of Shakespeare. Even actors do. People are like, "Oh, I won't go and see Shakespeare… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
“The word "L♡VE" means absolutely nothing without the action behind it. You wanna know how to really empower someone? You don't have… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and… — Michael Dummett Copy Share Image
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice,"… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse-- no matter the people-- no… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“your words are pure poison, Master Reynold,' said Lesthen. 'You and your kind suffer from the worst disease of humanity, the willingness… — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“...there's an inverse relationship between frequency and information content...It doesn't do you much good to understand 80% of the word in a… — Mark Rosenfelder Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I hate this language with its false words like sunset. The sun does not set. It doesn't rise either. It just… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
I draw things on the paper very freely but believing there is meaning to them already. There is already meaning in the… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“Those were all big Words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when Words… — Cathrynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and… — John Backus Copy Share Image
“Words... are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible, most unteachable of all things. Of course, you can catch them and sort them and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
