I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard. — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York,… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“I nod seriously, "Supes." "You're mocking me." "A little bit." "People say supes!" "What people?" "I can't believe you're shaming me right… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
Diminutive worlds are more likely to be rocky, and lapped by oceans and atmospheres. In the vernacular of 'Star Trek,' these would… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing… — Walter Crane Copy Share Image
Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas. — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean.… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. — David Antin Copy Share Image
