Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
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I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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English is not my first language.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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My view is that this is the beginning, not the end, of what is going to be a journey that takes some time.
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I would love to play a fun character. Like, I would love to be in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night.' I love that play. I'd play Edmond or Jamie. I don't care which.
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I started my entrepreneurial journey right out of college. At the age of 21, I incorporated my first business: a PR firm based in New York City.
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Pay attention. As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that. And as a talisman or motto for that journey in search of a homeland, which is what faith is, I would settle for that too.
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The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.
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You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
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Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.
