Connections Quote by Stanley Fish Download Open image “No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.” — Stanley Fish ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Connections Structure
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Empty words are like droplets of rain pattering upon the ground. It is difficult to find a single feature that distinguishes one from another.” — Richard Cezar Copy Share Image
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
“My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not say a literal God, a God that wouldst be understood literally and… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
“Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance. An activity that cannot be justified is an activity that… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
“In his great book How to Do Things with Words (1962), J.L. Austin considers the apparently simple sentence "France is hexagonal." He asks if… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you… — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection… — Terence Conran Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection.… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
On the road, I try to maintain my connections with friends and family as much as I possibly can. That keeps me pretty grounded. — Noelle Scaggs Copy Share Image
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