Quote by China Miéville Download Open image ““Oratees are addicts. Strung out on an Ambassador’s Language.”” — China Miéville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Orwell depicts the proletarians as essentially uncontrollable. The state does not try to control them as much as it simply distracts them.” — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town.” — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Ambassador Noyes had another trait I had noticed in many slow-witted people: he was tremendously interested in philosophy.” — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk… — Robert K. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
“He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.” — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Be not furious with my tongue, great thane, for it is merely a parrot of wiser men.” — Scottish Messenger Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
