Ellen Lupton Quotes
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
Orhan Pamuk -
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
Damien Chazelle -
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
Vikas Swarup -
Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
Natasha Trethewey -
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
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Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
Pamela Meyer -
The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
Ian Mckellen -
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 -
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus -
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 -
I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
Sam Shepard
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard -
I love language, and I love the failure of language.
Nate Lowman -
Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.
Jack Ramsay -
I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
Jack Ma -
Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
Edward T. Hall
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I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.
Danielle Trussoni -
Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
Willa Cather -
There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.
Tim Ferriss -
I love coffee so much. I oh so love it so much.
Crosby Loggins -
I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
Victor Mature -
Typography is what language looks like.
Ellen Lupton