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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A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.
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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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In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.
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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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We work together in publishing--big publishers, small publishers. We are a community and must think of ourselves as a community, instead of being in love with the idea of the talented individual. Language belongs to us.
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
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You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
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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.
