It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
In the 16th and 17th centuries, most people in Britain lived in small village communities. They knew all their neighbours. They dressed… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience,… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
Sancho is really very important to me. Not just because he comes from the same country as me or because he speaks… — Jude Bellingham Copy Share Image
Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Words whose sense is the most ill-defined are sometimes those that possess the most influence. Such, for example, are the terms democracy,… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
What I supported when I was a young man, was that the solution to bring justice to all in South Africa, was… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
When you're about three years old, you start to learn how to be manipulative. I know this from my own experience -… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind—the culture—has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its… — John A. Hiigli Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
When you speak words that are relevant to people, they automatically shut up and you know you are in the presence of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
“Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised. Words are probably older than the cave paintings in France, words… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“Raphael looked like he might have laughed if he'd been younger and more cheerful. 'Why are you using the Jesuit dictionary?' 'How… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depends on how, when… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Andy wasn't capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
“You and I are so different: I am one word at a time one foot in front of the other, slowly, always… — Carlene Bauer Copy Share Image
In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
