It's difficult to sit down and write a letter back saying, "you know what, even if we remove the word from the… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
There is something new in the air. There is, there is a - a hunger for an open, non-dogmatic, form of Christian… — Philip Clayton Copy Share Image
I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
That is the beauty when I discovered the label 'Touched With Fire.' That book defined it for me, I could be that.… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
“I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of guys out there with skills who have not contributed to the evolution of the instrument. It's about… — Vinnie Colaiuta Copy Share Image
I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
“It is an odd fact that certain words will leap at one out of a jumble of voices. Once such a thing… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“You think what people say is what matters, an older friend told me long ago. You think it's all about words. Well,… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Quite a lot has been written, including by me, about the effect of social media on politics, and in particular the way… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
Well, you got a girl and you don't understand what she's saying and she don't understand what you're saying, but the chemistry… — Ray J Copy Share Image
Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“There are nine different words in Maya for the color blue...but just three Spanish translations, leaving six butterflies that can be seen… — Earl Shorris Copy Share Image
The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
“We knew the difference between that which cannot be expressed and that which must. We understood that while words are a path… — Laura Bynum Copy Share Image
To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
