Bram van Velde Quotes
In the first piece that you Beckett wrote about me circa 1946, you never once used the word color. That was important. I was struck by it.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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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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Home is the nicest word there is.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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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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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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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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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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The F-word here is focus.
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.
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Notice the word ‘noble’ in noble truth. This is a truth to be realized. We are not told to grasp or believe this truth; it isn’t a belief; it isn’t a dogma; it isn’t a metaphysical truth; it isn’t the ultimate reality. It is a very common human experience of loss, identifying with that which is unsatisfactory, with change, with the delusions we create, and the expectations and assumptions we make about our lives
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How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?
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Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in.
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In the first piece that you Beckett wrote about me circa 1946, you never once used the word color. That was important. I was struck by it.
