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“Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.”

Heart Religion Faith Language Given Subjects Secular

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.”

Feels Art Real Form Language Understanding Subjects Painting Depends Importance Pictorial

Book:A Roger Fry Reader

Source: A Roger Fry Reader

“Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems. Levin's fearless willingness to tackle any subject combines with her subtle intelligence to produce a rare reading experience, the moving, psychologically sophisticated and intriguing work of a poet with both guts and craft”

Moving Reading Language Voice Generations Subjects Produce Poet Shining Crafts Fearless Guts Subtle Willingness Sophisticated Vigorous Intriguing Dynamics Reading Experience

Author:Molly Peacock

“The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.”

Should Writing Language Social Space Practice Subjects Position Judging Masters Theory Activity Safe Research Discourse Analysts

Author:Roland Barthes

“I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.”

Writing Kind Book Matter Play Use Romance Language Dark Mystery Subjects Strange Murder Plot Why Not Subject Matter Thrillers Harlequin

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a great and beautiful novel which mainly involved shallow people going to parties in a rich guy's house. By contrast, all sorts of terrible books are published every month about men slaughtering people for no reason - a serious matter which, in itself, does not make the author worthy of serious consideration.”

“Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what she describes as an 'unblinking look' at their subjects - which might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed... the result is a work so bad that Britons cannot realise how fortunate they are in being unable to buy it. The great mistake with this book is not that it has been published in Britain, but that it has actually been published anywhere else.”

Writing Looks Mean Has Beens Book Might Eye Courses Language Results Mistake Subjects Method Fortunate Britain Realising Frank Her Eyes Biographies Nancy Great Mistakes Kitties Britons

Author:David Cannadine

“Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.”

Thinking Science Language Understanding Subjects Buddhism Depends Increase Block

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the cladding of sensory appearance and discern the abstract construction underneath - not always on demand, and not infallibly, but often enough and insightfully enough to shape the human condition. Our powers of analogy allow us to apply ancient neural structures to newfound subject matter, to discover hidden laws and systems in nature, and not least, to amplify the expressive power of language itself.”

Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

“In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.”

Writing Language Space Subjects Creating Disappear Manifest Pins

Book:Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

Source: Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

“Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of the negation of man's corporeal self that mathematics achieves cannot be compared with anything. Whoever is interested in this subject I refer to my articles. Here I will say only that the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.”

Men World Way Humans Doe Self Language Sleep Achieve Subjects Fields Degrees Mathematics Patterns Articles Endeavour Utterance Negation Inception Human Language

Book:His Master's Voice

Source: His Master's Voice

“George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.”

Book Matter Shows Political Language Subjects Tricks Narrative Dirty Poetic Crucial Celebration Masterpiece Sequence Subject Matter Surveys Greatest Book

Author:Graham Joyce

“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”

Thinking Writing Art Book Would Be Earth Together Artist Language Support Air Subjects Style Invisible Thoughtful Attachment Exterior

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.”

Beautiful Language Sex Consciousness Subjects Climate Available Sexuality Snow Mortals Contemplation

Book:Outlander

Source: Outlander

“Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.”

Ifs Needs Use Language Rich Subjects Constant Soil Threatened Fertility Erosion Soil Erosion

Author:Elizabeth Drew

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

Life Writing Firsts Humans Moments Age Poetry Humanity Speak Language Subjects Poet Source Protect Elements Tragedy Ancient Illness Old Age Human Life Tragic

Author:Louise Bogan

“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.”

“To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.”

Men Writing Language Natural Subjects Every Man Supposed To Be Natural Science

Book:The Methods of Historical Study: Eight Lectures Read in the University of Oxford In...1884, with the Inaugural Lecture on The Office of the Historical Professor

Source: The Methods of Historical Study: Eight Lectures Read in the University of Oxford In...1884, with the Inaugural Lecture on The Office of the Historical Professor

“But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.”

World Important Spirit Language Peace Liberty Taken Subjects Taught Gender Editors Passages Editing Cousin Making Peace

Author:Norman Cousins

“But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.”

Way Language Interest Subjects Backgrounds Poetry Is Makers Hobbies Utterance Fixation

Author:Thomas Lynch

“No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.”

“Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.”

Trying Philosophy Reality Seems Form Literature Language Subjects Mathematics Connected Physics Department Woe

Author:Jules Michelet

“It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.”

Heart Doe Body Speak Language Steps Subjects Direct Harmony Executing

Book:A dance autobiography

Source: A dance autobiography

“I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate.”

People Mean Action Language Community United Class Fate Blood Subjects Committed Connected Collectives Socialist My Thoughts Thoughts And Actions

Author:Adolf Hitler

“[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.”

“The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.”

World Culture Language Waiting Subjects Photographer Representation Framed Reception Grids Leica

Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau