“The “Word of God” is not simply the Christian Bible but exists in a threefold form: “The Word” incarnate (Jesus Followers’ King),… — Gary F. Patton Copy Share Image
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity,… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I understand that in people's eyes, classical music is kind of a lost and dying art, but in my eyes, it's like,… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Everyone stared at me now. I’d studied linguistics a long time ago. A little philology too, the study of languages from analyzing… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false… For truth, properly considered, is about… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language.… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
“Quote' is a verb; 'quotation', a noun. Lazy tongues attached to empty minds have taken the distinction from us. Before we lament,… — D.F. Downing Copy Share Image
Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Around a child, people come and go, objects appear and are taken away, surroundings take shape and disintegrate. And no explanation is… — Peter Hoeg Copy Share Image
“She’d just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no… — Penn Williamson Copy Share Image
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression.… — John Towner Williams Copy Share Image
What I want is to talk about how someone raised Muslim struggles with the same stuff that everyone else theoretically could. Obviously,… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“The only way to strip words of their power was to erase them. Of course, once one had been released into the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Everybody has their manifesto; let them talk their language, come to the people, and the people will decide. In a democracy, no… — Prakash Raj Copy Share Image
Our children learn the phonetic method, which is why they're very good spellers, I suppose. Because rather than ABC or just saying… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is a cage in which you are trapped in an endless cycle of constantly wanting more - sexually - that you… — Michael Glatze Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers,… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
We all desperately need love. If a spouse in a difficult marriage will learn the love language of that spouse, and they… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“IPA is used to transcribe the sound of a word, regardless of its spelling. This is important to keep in mind when… — David J. Peterson Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
Never underestimate a populist. We have come to a moment where language is very important. Saying the media is the number one… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
