Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
[Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
“A like N.B. that Ewell ends up inserting under the heading Biker is that every professional tattooist everybody who can remember getting… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters. — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented. — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image