Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before the First World War) and the King Edward variety of potato which has fed the British working class for almost as long). ...

The Language of Genes

A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Grati...

The Language of Soul: Keys to Living a More Meaningful Life

As the incidence and fear of rape on college campuses have increased, the term rape has been generalized to mean 'misuse; diminish the effects of; steal; defeat': "I just went to the mall and raped my VISA." "My dad phoned this morning and raped my b...

Slang & Sociability: In Group Language Among College Students

You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some kinds of molecules to pass from the bloodstream into the brain. Emotions can easily pass from the fictional world into the re...

Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You

If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure. Life may be len...

Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language

The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean minority in this country that is still offended by violations of the English language, you will be slapped in the face every ...

Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back t...

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thou...

Simone Weil

Modern nationalism swept Europe alongside the flourishing of industrialisation. Across the continent, poets and intellectuals cultivated and often heavily modified vernacular languages to be bearers of 19th century modernity. These guardians of langu...

Michael Gordin

Each language is a unique repository of facts and knowledge about the world that we can ill afford to lose, or, at the least, facts and knowledge about some history and people that have their place in the understanding of mankind. Every language is a...

Michael E. Krauss

Here’s the conundrum: We want to tell our stories! But if condensation is the language of wishes—especially the most verboten and destructive ones—the more you spell the story out, the less aesthetically charged it becomes. The question is whet...

Love

I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the same thing the same way twice, without varying a word. If music is a language, why don’t people use it with the same subtlety, nuance, and facility as...

The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

Ouch! I feel bitch slapped-- Matt Carter

Common Descent

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

Nancy Pearcey

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Peter R. Grant

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Robert Fripp

Stop trying to explore what is different about yourselves and explore the commonality you have instead.

Réné Gaudette

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

Robyn Hitchcock

I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element.

Shakira

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

St. Vincent

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

T.K. Naliaka