“As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person - so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.” ThinkingMenPersonsUseSpeakLanguageCausesTeachProduceMastersDependsAuthorityIncreaseNobleFollowersLoyalInclination Author:Thomas Szasz
“People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.” PeopleWritingHas BeensOrderSpeakEffectsProduceDegreesSentences Author:Stanley Fish
“To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.” MenWayMeanLittlesDifferentSpeakWalksEffectsProduceSeriesGenderImpressionBeing A Woman Author:Judith Butler
“Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.” WritingWould BeOrderSpeakNaturalSeeingEffectsProduceConversationDespairLettersInstanceLinksBizarreDeafDeafnessNatural OrderInterchange Author:Lord Chesterfield
“Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!” IdeasSpeakProduceOld Proverb Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind of wiring so to speak could in some sense be related to having a different way of thinking which could produce genius type thoughts.” PeopleThinkingWayKindDifferentCertainSpeakBrainProduceTypeGeniusIllnessMental IllnessDifferent WaysRelatedDifferent KindsWay Of ThinkingWiring Author:H. A. Berlin
“I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.” ThinkingDoeRealSpeakLanguageProduceOriginalsTranslations Author:Christian Wiman