The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself,” he said. “Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
I believe Florida deserves a candidate who will work for Florida every single day and campaign for every Florida voter, no matter… — Carlos Lopez-Cantera Copy Share Image
Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails… — Anthony Bozza Slash Copy Share Image
“>>> puzzle_letters = nltk.FreqDist('egivrvonl') >>> obligatory = 'r' >>> wordlist = nltk.corpus.words.words() >>> [w for w in wordlist if len(w) >= 6… — Steven Bird Copy Share Image
“There was one panicked moment. He picked a book from the wall, and the shapes inside, all the letters, were friends to… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for ways to explore the politics of the everyday. For me, the proverbs were a way of bringing in… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things… — Abraham H. Cannon Copy Share Image
“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I make the case in the book that Standard English, that language we all aspire to live and move and have our… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I find myself trying to translate a lot of the things whirring passed my subjective lens into language I can make sense… — Milo Copy Share Image
I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people, bringing our brains, shielded in centimeter-thick skulls, into… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
I want to say unequivocally that while I cherish every person who comes from anywhere, who comes here legally and seeks to… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I really love James Joyce, Dubliners and other work. And I was interested in the way the dash was used in English… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
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Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes, people meet our writing before they meet us; our writing is our first impression.People read our résumés, cover letters, proposals, and… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“fact, good communication is a lot like pasta sauce. The more you boil down and reduce a sauce, the more dynamic the… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
“It was the word for a disquiet not otherwise definable, it referred to a miscellaneous crowd of things in her head, debris… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“If you've used adverbs, look at them carefully. Adverbs are the weakest words; verbs are the strongest. Many, many times I've found… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
![“Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of…” quote by Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc1/clifton-fadiman-11053_book_seriously-i-do-not-know-what-to-say-of-t_494033.jpg)
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