Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.


Penelope Lively

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Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms
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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure o...
WERNER HEISENBERG
This world and everything in it is only temporary; eternity is out there, we swim in it. And within ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of l...
TOM ROBBINS
Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.
JULIA PENELOPE
No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we c...
CARL SAGAN
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a langua...
RICHARD RORTY
In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, ...
JOHN GRIBBIN
No new world without a new language.
INGEBORG BACHMANN
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it ar...
PENELOPE LIVELY
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but f...
PENELOPE LIVELY
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the ...
PENELOPE LIVELY
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time...
PENELOPE LIVELY
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
PENELOPE LIVELY
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change ove...
PENELOPE LIVELY
All history, of course, is the history of wars.
PENELOPE LIVELY
All history, of course, is the history of wars
PENELOPE LIVELY
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; thin...
PENELOPE LIVELY
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative wa...
PENELOPE LIVELY
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
PENELOPE LIVELY
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much...
PENELOPE LIVELY
The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunl...
PENELOPE LIVELY
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able t...
PENELOPE LIVELY
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom...
PENELOPE LIVELY
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of blood...
PENELOPE LIVELY
Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we ke...
PENELOPE LIVELY
Children are infinitely credulous. My Lisa was a dull child, but even so she came up with things tha...
PENELOPE LIVELY
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
GEORGE STEINER
The lively Shadow-World of Song.
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and...
ITALO CALVINO
Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE
You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. ...
WILLIAM TURNER
Coral is bright without being intrusive. We associate it with the sea and nature. It's lively and wa...
DIXON BARTLETT
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.
MAL PANCOAST
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
NOAM CHOMSKY
Sometimes I don't want to see the puppeteers, sometimes I just want to see the magic therein, and so...
PATRICK HENRY
It only takes lively dreams to make life lively.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of ...
GEORGE WALD
I wanted to see everything. It was around the time I acquired language, or even before that time, wh...
JOY HARJO
We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions ge...
WILHELM DILTHEY
And it’s time you stop dickering around and accept yourself a suit.” Penelope’s eyes went wide...
SARAH MACLEAN
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so conc...
NIELS BOHR
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of ...
GEORGE WALD
The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a...
CARLO ROVELLI
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is beca...
JOSTEIN GAARDER
Keep it less dramatic,more lively & more manly. Take a deep breathe & enjoy the world around you.
AKHIL SREEDHAR
It has taken fifteen billion years to get you here. That is scientific fact. We are not just the pro...
MATTHEW FOX
If we lived in a world before this one, without human bodies, only with our souls, the language we s...
ROSA M. BETANCES
Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more pos...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a ...
JINATO HU
i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?
MELINA MARCHETTA
What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind...
ANNA GODBERSEN
I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!
TOM FELTON
Show us that sport unites by overcoming national, political, religious and language barriers. You ca...
JACQUES ROGGE
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness whe...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
Moreover, every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own str...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI
We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of ...
JONATHAN SACKS
Maggie had a lively spirit, full of fun and humor. The building will certainly be emptier without he...
JEANNE MILLER
We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our liv...
DAVID LEVITHAN
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to ...
HARRY MATHEWS
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and ...
SETH LLOYD
We all really like Montreal a lot. It has a real lively, living atmosphere - it's not squeaky clean,...
DANIEL KESSLER
You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have ...
ANATOLY CHUBAIS
Our education is our wings ,it gives us confidence and make us independent,without it we feel like a...
KOWSALAPATHY
We played at a high level but some individual errors costs us. I'm hoping for a lively Senegal in th...
ABDOULAYE SARR
I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's mar...
PAZ VEGA
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
NELLY SACHS
We each have our own language.
Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sens...
HOLLY SMALE
It's pretty generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do abou...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
We had a pretty lively household.
MARTHA DAVIS
Imagine a world without words! Imagine a world without thoughts! Imagine a world without actions! If...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is consta...
CASEY MILLER
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is consta...
CASEY MILLER
The problem with voting 'no' like that is that they want to spin it that you are anti-international ...
CRAIG SCHNELL
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be
MAHATMA GANDHI
No one else can make you happy, and putting that expectation on the other will doom both of you. You...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking t...
JACK HANDEY
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking t...
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking t...
STEVEN WRIGHT
Everybody is for Grambling. We don't like going anywhere without the band. We love the band because ...
BRUCE EUGENE
Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.
DAVE MUSTAINE
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Tor...
DAVID NOVAK
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor ...
CICERO
Scandal had made it easy for Penelope to end the engagement without being jilted. Well, at least, no...
SARAH MACLEAN
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.
ERIC HOFFER
The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; ...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO
We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, anal...
SIDNEY JOURARD
Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
Not enough schools offer Italian. We try to encourage the study of language. It brings culture and d...
JOE GEREMIA
The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS
Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language en...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
HA HA HA HA HA! I, Penelope…
RICHARD ROBERTS

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I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.
PENELOPE CRUZ
As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody...
PENELOPE CRUZ
I had a horrible, horrible breakdown. It was just huge, like the worst period of my life, and it las...
PENELOPE CRUZ
I like roles that people don't recognize me in.
PENELOPE CRUZ
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of...
PENELOPE CRUZ
I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling parti...
PENELOPE CRUZ
It felt like there is a dialogue between these two movies and these two women. They could be friends...
PENELOPE CRUZ
He's completely different from the others, and he has a special dedication to his actors.
PENELOPE CRUZ
I want to be the only one to show you everything and to be the one you'll always remember for the re...
PENELOPE WARD
To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a thin...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD
When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagin...
PENELOPE SPHEERIS
It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister...
PENELOPE CRUZ
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.
PENELOPE SWEET
Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.
PENELOPE GILLIATT
I'm particularly excited about the sulfate results...because so much of the material we are looking ...
PENELOPE BOSTON
I bought you a dinner in an elegant restaurant for our first one and took you for a plane ride for o...
PENELOPE WARD
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD
I have this theory. If you think about almost any given moment in life, there is a Beatles song that...
PENELOPE WARD
Red dress, strappy shoes? wow. She's really staring at you. - Shit. - And she seems to be crying.Les...
PENELOPE CRUZ
Johnny [Depp] is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.
PENELOPE CRUZ
you cant trust somebody who thinks you're crazy
PENELOPE CRUZ
he can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never!
PENELOPE CRUZ
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the tr...
PENELOPE CRUZ
In the beginning, there was silence.
L. PENELOPE
But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD
That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then a
new thought hit her. Perhaps love was...
PENELOPE MARZEC
This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.
...
PENELOPE WARD
I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little gi...
PENELOPE CRUZ
It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.
PENELOPE WILTON
The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and ...
PENELOPE CRUZ
Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes yo...
PENELOPE CRUZ
I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice ...
PENELOPE WILTON
Letting yourself be vulnerable isn't always a weakness. Sometimes it can be a conscious decision to ...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
Gotta love a woman that can hand you your own ass.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you.
PENELOPE SMITH
No one else can make you happy, and putting that expectation on the other will doom both of you. You...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she's going to drag me there herself.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
You turn me on.” He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek.” PENELOPE DOUGLAS I bite my bottom lip, trying not to cry. I never cry in front of them.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
He's a reminder of what I want to feel everyday, whether it's with him or on my own. He's taught me ...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to sa...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS