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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
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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.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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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.
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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.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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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.
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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.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I
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When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his skull, and lost sight in one eye.
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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
