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The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
“Speak, Madame; speak, queen," said Buckingham. "The softness of your voice covers the hardness of your words. You speak of sacrilege, but… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“A second theory agrees that our unique language evolved as a means of sharing information about the world. But the most important… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
“It’s impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Shall I tell you a joke about languages? Abulfaz asked. A joke. Yes, okay. What do you call a Russian who speaks… — Jon Fasman Copy Share Image
“When we hear that "war" is made for "peace", or that "pain" is sought for "pleasure" or that "brutality" helps one "feel",… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who… — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson -… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Words mean nothing. They are like the husks of the coffee Bean. They cover what is essential, which is the bean itself,… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't… — Jake Garn Copy Share Image
“That's just like the manual says," said Witherwax. "If we want to have international brotherhood, we gotta get a language that everybody… — Fletcher Pratt Copy Share Image
“If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Politics is different than movies. Politics are controlled by leaders. Leaders of every country have different interests. And they try to explain… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I remember I was really into this British band, The Vapors, with that song "Turning Japanese." I thought that they were really… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
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