Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell Category: Language
The refined scholar sustains himself on the finest aged wines of poetry but should take time occasionally to partake of cheap-ale words. – Terri Guillemets, “Drinking Literature,” 2003 Category: Language
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James Category: Language
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. – Georg Simmel Category: relationship
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: great
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. – Joan Didion Category: Science Fiction
