Ben Lerner Quotes

There was some kind of special power involved in repurposing language, redistributing the voices, changing the principle of patterning, faint sparks of alternative meaning in the shadow of the original sense, the narrative.

Ben Lerner

• Language
• Shadow
• Changing

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Shadow

• 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
  • English
  • Language
  • Novels

• I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

  

  Zendaya
  • Language
  • Weird
  • Appreciated

• With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Language
  • Grit

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

  

  Sam Kean
  • Language
  • Story
  • DNA

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• 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

• It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Body
  • Changing

• Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • American
  • Know
  • English

• I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Language

• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Thought

• People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Work
  • Language

• Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Real
  • Technology
  • Language

• If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Experience
  • Language
  • Child

• Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Interesting
  • Language

• For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Work
  • College
  • Language

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Words
  • Wish
  • Language

• I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!'

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Play
  • Golf

• He who retreats lives longer.

  

  Michael Scott
  • Longer
  • Retreat

• The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.

  

  Confucius
  • Target
  • Archer
  • Corrects

• This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Nurse

• There was some kind of special power involved in repurposing language, redistributing the voices, changing the principle of patterning, faint sparks of alternative meaning in the shadow of the original sense, the narrative.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Language
  • Shadow
  • Changing