With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It was totally different. I am living in Sao Paulo and then I'm in Ukraine living in a small city called Donetsk.… — Willian Copy Share Image
I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, "Oh, that's… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Language would have evolved first as an internal object, a kind of "language of thought" (LOT), with externalisation (hence communication) an ancillary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really… — Andrew Heller Copy Share Image
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“Aye.' It's a good word, I think. More a whole attitude than a word, really. With lots of meaning in it, too.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“... but I love language. It is a living, breathing, evolving thing, and language has power. Whether in a song lyric, a… — Lily Velden Copy Share Image
I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Everything that is true is authentic. When we were born, we did not have knowledge. As soon as we have language, we… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on… — Elizabeth Cunningham Copy Share Image
“A scene will not be vivid if the writer gives too few details to stir and guide the reader's imagination; neither will… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be… — John Ray Copy Share Image
“A word?" the Sicilian said, raising his arms. His mile was more angelic than his face Buttercup halted. "Speak." "We are but… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image