One listens to a piece of great music, say, and feels deeply moved by it, and wants to put this feeling into… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
As a woman of colour, as a person who is a minority, I believe its important that other people know about my… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
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I see more now. As far as concepts, I know where teammates are going, linemen are going. I can read defensive fronts.… — Brandon Jacobs Copy Share Image
In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language,… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Actors are always being asked to speak. Sometimes there is a well-honed script, often there is not. But we are well-practised in… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
“On the first day of school, a first-grade teacher tells her class they’re not babies anymore. They have to use grown up… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to… — Daphne Rose Kingma Copy Share Image
The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
A dream set would include songs by other artists like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and other favorites. More obscure Heart songs like… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
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Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a… — Zoketsu Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“He can talk!" "Yes, I can speak any language you want, fly, and breath fire." Air Raid said proudly. "Can you do… — Jennifer Priester Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly,… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires. . . . And I… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret,… — Walter Abish Copy Share Image
Good, well-defined, well-honed art is not a foreign language. You can sell it to people. You just have to move your ego… — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“John said, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14). John was particularly emphatic on this matter in… — Millard J. Erickson Copy Share Image
You see Bill Clinton, and you say: Oh, this guy cares about me. Hillary Clinton isn't the same way. You see her,… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
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