Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Celan

I went with my very being toward language.

Paul Celan

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

Paul Celan

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

Patricia Ryan

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

Patricia Velasquez

Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them with food, medical attention, education, and also focusing on sustainability.

Oscar Wilde

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

Oscar Wilde

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Oscar Wilde

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

Oscar Wilde

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

Oscar Wilde

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Oscar Wilde

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

Government-sponsored telecom networks remain a financially risky proposition that have consistently lost large sums of money.

(Graduates) will read this and think 'The person is talking my language,'

For the last three months of 2005 output will increase, but the oil price will still be a major factor,

For once in my life I didn't think about last year.

For pretty much the last 38 days, there was significant rainfall going on somewhere in the state.

Abby Wambach

For some of them it's going to be their last go-round for an international event. I think that's going to be all the more motivation.

Ivan Illich

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

Ivan Illich

Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

Ivan Illich

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

Isaiah Washington

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!

Isaiah Mustafa

I just like making people laugh.

Isaiah Berlin

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

Ismail Haniyeh

The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.

Ismail Haniyeh

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

Isla Fisher

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

Isak Dinesen

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

Isak Dinesen

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

Irrfan Khan

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

Iris Murdoch

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

Imre Lakatos

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

Ina May Gaskin

It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.