#diction

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#dictionaries #dominated #grammar #greek #language

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#dictionary #does #great #literature #make

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. ↗

— Edward Norton

#always #angry #because #come #contradictions

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#been #degree #describing #future #historical

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster. ↗

— Gary Numan

#away #contradictions #difficult #disaster #going

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#dictionary #i #look #means #model

I've triumphed over addiction. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#i #over #triumphed

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. ↗

— Evan Parker

#apparent #concern #contradictions #many #me

I'm full of contradictions. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#full #i

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#beautiful women #come #comfortable #conclusion #contradiction