'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
Randy Newman
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
Timothy Noah
I feel that I speak the musical language.
Marsha Norman
If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and... →
David Novak
Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same... →
My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much... →
Louise Nurding
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
Naomi Shihab Nye
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second... →
Conan O'Brien
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world... →
Stewart O'Nan
I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President... →
Paul O'Neill