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
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
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
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
“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
“Vulgar languages, especially when native, stand too close to the press of life. Their meanings are too easily warped by our insights… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried… — Anitta Copy Share Image
“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master. Our computers have trouble understanding how Homo… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
“There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you're wondering,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Any Name of God in any language is worthy of respect but the original Name of God in the Semitic language is… — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi Copy Share Image
As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've always been very politically interested from a very young age and I hadn't felt that was something I could begin to… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Each species of intelligent life in the galaxy learned to limit its perceptions of the world it inhabited in order to preserve… — Sheila Finch Copy Share Image
“If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I do the same with… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There's an exercise I'll do sometimes with a class in which we'll start with a word; I'll give everyone a word, and… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
“This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter, This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sound words can't be understood through formal study of the language alone. They're felt when you immerse yourself in the culture or… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and,… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect… — Jenna Dewan Copy Share Image
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