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
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
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
Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
Sam Kean
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
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
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
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
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
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
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
I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
Jack Ma
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!
Edgar Allan Poe
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Because what we have done, we have thrown clothes off and they have picked them up and put them on.
Nadine Dorries
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
Abbie Hoffman
When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.
Natalie Massenet
In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
Michael Caine
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
