Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part of their vernacular.
Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
He that doesn't know his bed is too hard sleeps well.
Only the man who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell.
It's easy to throw something into the river but hard to get it out again.
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
The hard road turns the traveller into the same dust that he has to swallow.
No matter how hard you try the bull will never give milk.
But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music is about what the words say, literally, and nothing more. If done poorly, they can destroy the pleasant ambiguity that constitutes much of th...
Galatians 5:22-23 describes the fruit of the Spirit, which is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Notice the verse does not say the "fruits" of the Spirit, but fruit. The fruit, or result, of t...
Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also ...
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"-...
English has so many words that do not exist in Sharchhop, but they are mostly nouns, mostly things: machine, airplane, wristwatch. Sharchhop, on the other hand, reveals a culture of material economy but abundant, intricate familial ties and social re...
King Arthur: Cut down a tree with a herring? It can't be done. [the Knights of Ni scream and cover their ears] Knight 1: Don't say that word! King Arthur: What word? Knight 1: I cannot tell! Suffice to say, is one of the words the Knights of Ni canno...
What is a valley of tears? He was scourged, covered with spittle, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross. From this valley of tears you must ascend. But ascend where? ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
