There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Are there not hours of an immortal birth,— Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The word of the moment isclassless, whether applied toCockney Society photographers or sprigs of the aristocracy running little bistros round the corner.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Words flow from love, and speech is likewise confounded by love. It is the sweetest gesture to be without words, and with… — Zechariah Barrett Copy Share Image
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Music is one whole force. And I think the Proms have always represented very clearly that music is a universal language, one… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
“One adopted their language, that of the teachers and the schools, one had none of one's own. At first it was like… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine,… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in… — Gruff Rhys Copy Share Image
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner… — Ana Tijoux Copy Share Image
“That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“There was a time when the Bengali language was an angry flood trying to break down her door. She would crawl into… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
“My French was neither good nor bad. I had enough to understand what people said to me, but speaking was difficult, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in "foreign… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information… — Saul Gorn Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
