Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes
if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
Sachin Tendulkar -
Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
Orlando Bloom -
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei -
Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
Maajid Nawaz -
I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
Nana Mouskouri
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
Sam Shepard -
The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
Lafcadio Hearn
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The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Edsger Dijkstra -
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
Vaclav Havel -
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)
Rachel Caine -
Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
Carl Maria von Weber -
One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.
Andrew Breitbart
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I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson
Louise Rennison -
I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. August Richards -
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
Socrates -
I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
Gail Simmons -
if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould