Simon Van Booy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
Vikram Seth -
I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
India de Beaufort -
Each is responsible for his own actions.
H. L. Hunt -
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
Florence King -
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
Gail Sheehy -
Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
Sam Kean
-
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine -
Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.
Karl Liebknecht -
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
Kari Matchett -
Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
Maajid Nawaz -
I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
Sam Shepard
-
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
Hans Haacke -
When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.
Hailey Gates -
The Washed Out thing happened really quickly, and I wasn't really actively promoting the songs. I didn't think of them as any more than demos, really, and it sort of became a thing on its own.
Washed Out -
I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
Jack Ma -
I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you.
Fernando Lamas
-
GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful...thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?
Cressida Cowell -
I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'
Ramon Rodriguez -
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
J. Irwin Miller -
Hands have their own language.
Simon Van Booy