I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
In my formative years the people who influenced me most were the Christian existentialists, I mean men like Munier and Kierkegaard and… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
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In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Madness is like being primitive once again and going back to the ancient era when there was no language, no clothes to… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Many people, especially in countries like the U.S. with a monolingual mainstream culture, think that being monolingual is the most natural way… — Barbara Zurer Pearson Copy Share Image
“They were proclaiming the end of the world, redemption through penitence, the visions of the seventh day, the advent of the angel,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to do a weekly strip, or a strip that was in installments like that. It's been fun trying to… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Part of the reason why I love to operate is because I find that so much of what we do is instinctual.… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
“... the Chinese have become very good at coming up with puns, alternative words, and memes. For example, they talk about the… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions… — Ryan Grim Copy Share Image
“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
I hope I have a few years left in my 'last days,' but whether I do or do not, I want it… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I'm trained as an architect; writing is like architecture. In buildings, there are design motifs that occur again and again, that repeat… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I can't sight-read classical etudes - I would have to see it and learn it. But yeah, I can read. It is… — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“This is the textual form of R5 Passivity: in order to dis-cover preexisting reality without distorting it, which would falsify it, language… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
America exports its culture world-wide but with us they don't have to surmount a language barrier, and therefore they swamp us. While… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate,… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
I know, for me, that I have always been very conscious of how I dress when I go to the studio, I'm… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
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“Do as you like, a minimal maxim, an old favorite of mine, so exalting and at the same time so difficult as… — Julián Ríos Copy Share Image
“Winds move but why must I... in this progression, is there really progress, to lay my words in slamming pronunciations to splatter… — Teresa Fleischer Copy Share Image
One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
In that most magnificent place, the purest of all places-your heart, someone resides there who is your closest friend. There for you… — Prem Rawat Copy Share Image
I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought;… — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
