“I write about subectivety-and inarticulation-about life pushing you into a state where everything is melting until you're left with the absolute and… — Deirdre Madden Copy Share Image
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Considering the fact that the Harappan script may have been proto-Brahmi, the underlying language to be expected should be Sanskrit, or proto-Sanskrit,… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
“Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people… — Kenneth Chenault Copy Share Image
Travel means growth. You have to see something new. You have to grow. You can't grow in the same place. Travel takes… — Redfoo Copy Share Image
I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers,… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
When you look in the dictionary for the most important word, do you know what it is? It could be remember.Because all… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“My prose was clunky compared to his. I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word. Matt's prose… — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
“There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
“Eloquence, like maturity, is a thing only developed through experience. Anyone can use words and use them well; only those devoted to… — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
The Conservatives are demonstrating that they don't understand the importance of cultural industries, of artists, of creators, not just to Canadian identity,… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
''Life takes us far apart, to many places and many ways of being. Love brings us together again, realizing we never actually… — QueenColor495 Copy Share Image
The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“There are several important remarks which can be made about this 'absolute emptiness' and 'absolute nothingness'. First of all, we now know,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
We are made up of words... Words spoken by those who walked in life before us Dad, Mom, Uncles. Aunts, Preachers, Teachers,… — Marv Stark Copy Share Image
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I have lexical-gustatory synesthesia. I can taste, and always have tasted, words. I remember when I was a kid and learning to… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw got a 100% in his vocabulary test in the making it work book chapter 17 pages (92-95) 10 vocabulary words,… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The image is a great reminder how we create our world through interpretations made up of language and symbols. Our language and… — Alan Briskin Copy Share Image
Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and… — Gianni Vattimo Copy Share Image
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important… — Troy Perry Copy Share Image
I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form,… — Adolph Ochs Copy Share Image