Suzanne Vega Quotes
If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
Suzanne Vega
Quotes to Explore
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
Ford Frick
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
Kate Atkinson
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
Mackenzie Foy
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei
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Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
Edith Head
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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
Talcott Parsons
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
Rabih Alameddine
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People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
Dana Hill
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Eavan Boland
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Barry White
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
Yusef Komunyakaa