Cases Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

— Jean Dubuffet

In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can…

— Neil Gaiman

“Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never…

— Lois Lowry

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

— Adrienne Rich

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

— Max Beerbohm

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big…

— Lawrence Dale Bell

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The…

— John Piper

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

— Walter Cronkite

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations…

— Rebecca West

“Being trusted by a stranger is the highest privilege in business.”

— Marion Bekoe

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins