David Crystal Quotes
The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.David Crystal
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
Foster Friess -
I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
Lance Henriksen -
You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
Zaha Hadid -
I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel -
I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
Pat Toomey -
I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
Vic Tayback
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
Vik Muniz -
It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
Irvin Kershner -
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot -
We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
Yahoo Serious -
I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
Randy Johnson
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
Carl Hiaasen -
What is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
Ian Botham -
I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
Zoey Deutch -
I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
Larry David -
One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
Pyotr Ouspensky -
I can't say that I've ever tried to hurt someone or humiliate them intentionally. My parents raised me to always be the bigger person or to treat others the way you want to be treated.
Nicole Gale Anderson -
You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.
Diplo -
Apparently it’s my fault that the Titanic sank.
Ian Holloway -
The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.
David Crystal