“I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
“You don't understand. Speaking, talking--language, that is--represents the most orderly, civilized, and rational expression of human nature. All this foul-mouthed cussing is… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I worked in fashion forecasting and I think that helps in being an editor because I love to know what's next, and… — Glenda Bailey Copy Share Image
“There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who… — John Matthews Copy Share Image
The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions:… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada. I went to a bar and… — Marc-Andre Grondin Copy Share Image
Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average -… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel,… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I think that there are times when Puertoricans think, "Oh, we are blessed with the relationship with the U.S." But the end… — Oscar Lopez Rivera Copy Share Image
If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Language is that first cry after birth, growing up to learn the correct way to write all the way up to landing… — Justin Bates Copy Share Image
Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
We also need to find a language capable of defending government as an element of the common good, one that does not… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself…We don't speak of… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
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When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
“These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I'd been treating love like a thing, an achievement, a trophy to be and hung around my neck. People talk about it… — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I snorted. ‘For a great sultan who is lord and ruler of all that he surveys, his English is lamentably poor. He… — Matthew Reilly Copy Share Image
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Language is powerful. What we say can shape how we think—and it certainly shapes how others think about us. In this regard,… — Richard Hunter Copy Share Image
“I am thinking of a summer on the Baltic when I was a child: how talkative I was to sea and forest;… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. In fact,… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
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