Up until the rise of electronic music, if you were a musician in Portugal or Germany or Italy or Japan, and you… — Moby Copy Share Image
We frame things in an off-kilter way because it's unsettling. In the 'Mr. Robot' world, that's the norm, and it's the norm… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have to wear a different face when you're interacting with the larger culture. And you can be more of yourself at… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but… — Paul Morabito Copy Share Image
The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Another fascinating example of esoteric knowledge adopted by the informed to communicate secretly was the use of sign language for the deaf.… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
It's just about feelings. And the thing is we - everybody lives exactly the same things. We are all humans, even if… — Stromae Copy Share Image
There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Would-be writers often ask me, do I ever get writer's block! I tell them, you get writer's block when you're imprisoned in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“His manager taught him that words change with time, by single letters or more, sometimes their whole roots switching—a “y” to an… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“You have my word as a gentleman." [The other man remarks that he is not a gentleman and he retorts] "Then you… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“God's true language: Hebrew. Latin. Arabic. Sanskrit. As if utterance fit into the requirements of the human mouth. I learned how to… — Kazim Ali Copy Share Image
I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important… — Isabel Coixet Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I hate that word, CAN’T. I wish it had never been dreamed up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN’T… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image