The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility… — Shoshannah Stern Copy Share Image
The hypothesis I wish to advance is thatthe language of morality is ingrave disorder… What we possess, if this is true, are… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me… — Arca Copy Share Image
Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic. I know what I can do and what I can't do. I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“Words are words. People add meaning to words. Information is information. With words people add value to information. Words breathe life into… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
“Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Let there be no limit to what we take to God in prayer, so that there may be no limit to God's… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most jokes are based on surprise. They take advantage of a confusion of language, or a twist in logic, or a contradiction… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would… — Steve Whitmire Copy Share Image
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Back in New York I took full advantage of my status as a native speaker. I ran my mouth to shop clerks… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I 'do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
