The space station mission was kind of the culmination of all of my experience of being a NASA Astronaut, so it had… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Words failed me at the precise moment I thought I was passing my vocabulary test, and I can’t tell you how that… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting reinvented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid.… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots;… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“And of all those English words, the most dominant, the most powerful, the most amazing has to be... Okay. As a language… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
Throughout elementary and middle school, I was used to hearing other words: Smart. Studious. Well-spoken. Well-read. They became pillars of my self-confidence,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Chust a little farther. Keep your shoes on.” Peter whispered to me. “Where does he get this stuff, anyway? … — Elle Casey Copy Share Image
I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“This is why we said 'ain't' and 'he don't'. We wanted words to fit our cold linoleum, our oil lamps, our outhouse.… — Vern Rustsala Copy Share Image
“The use of French in the ME period had introduced what Brown and Gilman (1960) refer to as a ‘non-reciprocal power semantic’… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the… — John Main Copy Share Image
For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes,… — Becky Lynch Copy Share Image
“The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature,… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
I worry these days that Latinos in California speak neither Spanish nor English very well. They are in a kind of linguistic… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human… you are generous,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what,… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
“Do I scare you?” “Yes.” She blurted out the word before she could stop it. “It’s just you’re so…” “Awesome. Magnificent. Virile.”… — Eve Langlais Copy Share Image
Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do… — Yukihiro Matsumoto Copy Share Image
I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill.… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language.… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Chomsky'S grammaticality, the cate gorical S symbol that dominates every sentence, is more fundamentally a marker of power than a syntactic marker:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I became aware of the overwhelming role of language in contemporary politics shortly before the 9/11 attacks. At that time, the word… — Anonymous Copy Share Image