“I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.” LanguageHalfWiseEmptyGlassesHalf Empty Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
“Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.” MenHeartDoeTodayHumanityLanguageRealizingHorrorEmptyAwakeSolitaryEchoesAbsurdityBoundlessSolitary Man Author:Arthur Adamov
“Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: "The King is dead" and "Jesus wept."” LightRememberJesusLanguageKingsEmptySentencesMemorablePaceEnglish LanguageStrideAdjectivesClausesMost MemorableAdverbsTravel Light Author:Bill Moyers
“The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?” WorldWellsDoeMatterBodyHandsRealityLightPastLanguageSpaceKnownEmptyYour BodyIndianDivisionSophisticatedTribesWell KnownEmpty SpacePast PresentPast Present And FuturePoints Of LightIndian Tribes Book:Sexing the Cherry Source: Sexing the Cherry
“Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous. How comfortable to turn instead to a small world, only a few thousand years old, and under God's personal; and immediate care; a world in which you are His peculiar concern.” WorldYearsGodCareScienceReligionTurnsUniverseLanguageChanceThousandComfortableUnderstoodConcernEmptyAccountsMathematicsComplexesScaryEnormousMathematicalPeculiarThousand YearsChillVistasUncaringSmall World Author:Isaac Asimov
“The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.” KnowsLifeImportantEnoughLanguageEasySpaceEmptyWarriorGod LoveEmpty SpaceImportant WordsSmall Words Author:Paulo Coelho