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

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• I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Language

• Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Language
  • Story
  • DNA

• I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Respect
  • Language

• Home is the nicest word there is.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Home
  • Word
  • Nicest

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

  Ford Frick
  • Word
  • Last
  • Sarcasm

• '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
  • Word
  • Feminist
  • Feminism

• 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
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• 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
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Language
  • Perception
  • Total

• '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
  • Word
  • Map
  • Dialect

• 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
  • People
  • Think
  • Rest

• Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Language

• As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

  

  Barry White
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Me

• 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
  • Time
  • History
  • Silence

• The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Will
  • Laws

• The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Change
  • Find

• Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Art
  • Language
  • Sound

• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the time. And I think of you. Always, Dante P.S.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Think
  • Hated
  • Truth Is

• When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Age
  • Lost

• 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
  • Language
  • Silence
  • Word