Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All the fun's in how you say a thing. —Robert Frost More about this quote Tags: speech fun Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Think of a word as a pendulum instead of a fixed entity. A word can sweep by your ear and by its very sound suggest hidden meanings, preconscious associations. Listen to these words: blood, tranquil, democracy. You know what they mean literally but you have associations with those words that are cultural, as well as your own personal associations. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Tags: words meaning democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. —Émile de Girardin More about this quote Tags: power words change defeat victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. —Lord Byron More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. —Willa Cather More about this quote Tags: words knowledge facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. —George Steiner More about this quote Tags: reality silence language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? —Russell Hoban More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. —Ludwig Wittgenstein More about this quote Tags: life language complexity complication organism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. —Roland Barthes More about this quote Tags: words language desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Health is my expected heaven. —John Keats, who suffered from, and died of, tuberculosis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All I could do was to follow his stretcher up to the room where they put him and sit by the bedside. Dying is work and he was a worker. Dying is horrible and my father was dying. I held his hand, which at least still felt like a hand; I stroked his forehead, which at least still looked like his forehead; and I said to him all sorts of things that he could no longer register. Luckily, there wasn't anything I told him that morning that he didn't already know. —Philip Roth More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit. —William Saroyan More about this quote Tags: understanding knowledge spirit doctors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By today's standards, Hippocrates was a profoundly abnormal physician. Medicine's founding father routinely tasted his patients' urine, sampled their pus and earwax, and smelled and scrutinized their stool. He assessed the stickiness of their sweat and examined their blood, their phlegm, their tears, and their vomit. He became closely acquainted with their general disposition, family, and home, and he studied their facial expressions. In deciding upon a final diagnosis and treatment, Hippocrates . . . considered dietary habits, the season, the local prevailing winds, the water supply at the patient's residence, and the direction the home faced. . . . Modern-day physicians often cringe or shake their heads when they hear descriptions of Hippocrates' diagnostic methods; laypeople, however, . . . wonder aloud at how nice it might be to have Hippocrates as their doctor. —David H. Newman More about this quote Tags: history doctors. medicine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being. —Chögyam Trungpa More about this quote Tags: mind improvement body self-improvement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email