Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children… — Romeo LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ...… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it,… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Some people thinks that I'm the Antichrist, which would be a really good disguise for the Antichrist. You'd never see a pudgy,… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we… — John Dee Copy Share Image
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
There is no way that carrying fifty or sixty extra pounds is easy on your heart, your lungs, or your liver. That's… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I ate really well and I'm vegan. I breastfeed, so everyday I got more and more back to my prebaby shape, but… — Jenna Dewan Copy Share Image
The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it… — Aleksander Kwasniewski Copy Share Image
It is not the part of divinity to go to humanity and to modify itself in any shape, manner or form; rather… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to… — James Frain Copy Share Image
And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
LUCAS: I've done a couple from memory but they aren't the same. Can't quite get the shape of your jaw. The line… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
“Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“[Her life] had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams… — Euripides Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image