language

"A Conversation on the Plurality of Worlds"

"How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, "I will see you in the vestry after service."

": “I didn’t go up and say the Pope’s a faggot!....Which is what he is, but I didn’t say that!"

"Our neighbors use searchlights, for they want more light. I tell you, Nikolai Pavlovich, we need more darkness."

"Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye..."

"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."

"An experience has to be formed, no doubt, before it is communicated, but it takes the form it does largely because it may have to be communicated."

"Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder."

"Speeches and Addresses of Washington"

"It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own esti…"

"Mr. Speaker, as I was saying on November 27, 1979, before I was so rudely interrupted..."

"If the stroke of the brush is so important, it is because it expresses precisely what is not there."

"Punk's an attitude. Punk's not three-chord rock. If you want to listen to three chord rock, there's southern rock."

"In order to prove whether the spirit can speak or not, it is necessary in the first place to define what a voice is and how it is generated."

"You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I'm right? Please wait until I'm wrong."

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

"If I were asked to define Conservative policy, I should say that it was the upholding of confidence."

"Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English."

"We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him."

"Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus."