The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it… — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent. — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
“She walks to a table She walk to table She is walking to a table She walk to table now What difference… — Wang Ping Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered; it is a question of what the propositions… — Moritz Schlick Copy Share Image
Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary. — Lister Sinclair Copy Share Image
The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of.… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We're so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don't realize that we are running on only half the visual… — Adam Fuss Copy Share Image
It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
