The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas Category: Language
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino Category: Language
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum Category: Language
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. – Robert Burchfield Category: Language
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher Category: Art
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. – Andy Warhol Category: Art
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. – Imamu Amiri Baraka Category: Religion
I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Category: Thanksgiving Day
