Language Quote by Philip Pullman Download Open image ““Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.”” — Philip Pullman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language
“It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Words are such terrible carriers of thought. They’re like the dead bodies of thoughts that the other side studies forensically.” — K. Hippolite Copy Share Image
“A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it. A skeleton… — Andrew Mayne Copy Share Image
“but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Beyond the feeble capacity of words. Defying the banality of description.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“Words are like food. They contain information that either releases and liberates and creates possibilities and development or locks you into unhealthy patterns you… — Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir Copy Share Image
“To be such a complicated, mysterious piece of biological machinery, and more amazing still, to have the capacity to analyze that machinery!” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it? — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a way of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
