"Metaphor is embodied in language."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Language, English, Example, Lady, Identity

"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."

George Eliot, British Author

Language, Bible, Communication, Humor

"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Language, Sun, Word, Meaning

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Language, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Power

"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Language, Time, Narrative, Walking

"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Language, Word, Trust, Feeling, Expression

"I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy."

Sean Bean, English Actor

Language, Trying

"Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Language, Communication, Humanity, Animals

"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Language, Theft, Truth, Life

"Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one's friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

Language, Love, Confusion, Culture

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"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."

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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."

"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."

"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."

"I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy."

"Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals."

"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

"Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one's friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion."

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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."

"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."

"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."

"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."

"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."

"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

"Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art."

"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."

"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."

"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."