Discourse Quotes

298 quotes by 248 authors

Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the… — Ellen Lupton
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others… — Isocrates
And let no one suppose that I claim that just living can be taught for, in a word, I hold that there does not exist… — Isocrates
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free… — A. R. Ammons
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other,… — Kenneth Lee Pike
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the… — Neil Postman
Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If… — Arcangela Tarabotti
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs… — Carol J. Adams
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving… — Carl Bernstein
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate… — James R Newman
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would… — John Tillotson
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering… — Edgar Allan Poe
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses… — Michel de Certeau
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. — Harvey Cox
Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever. — Joe Bob Briggs
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a… — Phillip E. Johnson
We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get… — Leah Ward Sears
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers… — William Raspberry
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with… — Plato

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