“The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.” MindHumansEyeLanguageStarsDifficultWrittenAirWindEarsCloudsSubstanceHuman MindHuman EyesWritten LanguageSpoken Language Book:The Wilderness Journeys Source: The Wilderness Journeys
“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.” MenWorldArtPhilosophyStoriesChristianEnergyLanguageStarsAnimalMankindWallFitNewsRelationConstantMythCirclesGreekIntimateReportsCompanionBelongingCavesDnaAcquaintanceRumorEgyptianSpeechlessReligion ChristianPrehistoricZodiacNews StoriesHindu ReligionGreek PhilosophyChristian Art Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.” WorldWayStillsTwoIdeasHumanityLanguageStarsUnderstandingViewsWestNotionAvailableStoresChineseImmortalityTwo WaysExplodingCrabsUnderstanding The WorldNebula Book:Great Ideas in Physics Source: Great Ideas in Physics
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.” WorldYearsBelieveChildrenBookCountryJoyLanguageStarsGoneCitizensOur ChildrenUnionsWideMinistersFollyFlagsMonarchsStripes Book:Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Source: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.” WorldWellsLightEarthUniverseNamesSpeakLanguageHeavenStarsChristRepeatsPassages Author:Philip James Bailey
“All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.” WellsLanguageStarsNumbersFiveMathematicsPatternsProgression Author:Brian Greene
“Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.” WritingHumansUseLanguageStarsBlackPrayerResultsPoetCommandVulnerableSentimentsEfficientEleganceUrgentUse Of Language Author:Kwame Dawes
“Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor's capital is his body.” BodyActorsLanguageStarsSpecialFilmmakerMovie StarBody Language Author:Wim Wenders
“Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.” WayMayAbleLostLanguageStarsJourneySeaForgottenBoatSailorPortPsycho Author:Rich Mullins
“Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.” KnowsSpeakLanguageStarsSkyDogFlowerMysteriousSheepHerbsShepherds Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.” IfsLooksHeartCountryHandsFatherLanguageStarsJusticeWhiteSkyLandColorPrideColdRedBlueOur CountryPurityLook UpFlagsCompanionshipBreezeFoldsOur FatherValorStripesBlazingEndearmentForeign LandsBunting Author:Charles Sumner