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Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
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I'm really interested in going back in to the history of non-binary people and seeing how many people in history were non-binary… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want… — Clark Johnson Copy Share Image
“Of the six million species on the planet, only man makes language. Words. What's more--in evidence of the Divine--we string those symbols… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Speaking does harm, sows confusion and weakens things that are obvious. Speaking makes me tremble inside. I don't think I have ever… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
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My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Just a couple of words can change everything and some days Ive said a couple words too few and Ive said a… — Brianna Wyka Copy Share Image
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I've spent years studying words. Linguistics, language, the power of words, the power of phrases on human beings. All of that. It's… — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized.… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“We might more of us say these words to others, and more frequently--how healing that would prove to be. "Look, we've had… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
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On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
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