Absolute freedom doesn't exist and never did. Just as we don't spit on the floor at work, swear at customers, or send… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
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You mark my words: Whenever a cult attacks Christianity, the first place they're going to go is they're going to attack the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
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I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
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