Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
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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
PENELOPE LIVELY 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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PENELOPE CRUZ Experience is the best teacher.
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PENELOPE FITZGERALD Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
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PENELOPE FITZGERALD If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
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he had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not wan...
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PENELOPE WILTON Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.
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PENELOPE DOUGLAS My overall fossil-hunting bias is heavily weighted to natural caves and fissures and overhangs,
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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.
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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