Convector Quotes & Sayings

The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community. — Leonard Bloomfield

Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all. — Billy Porter

I didn't want to argue with my hosts. I wanted them to talk. But I felt like reminding Li that perhaps forty million Chinese people had died of starvation a half century earlier because they followed their government's orders. It was the largest famine in history. A snapshot taken then would have given a very different picture of the supposedly essential character of Chinese people, and it would have entirely missed the point. Governments matter. Markets matter. History matters. International circumstances matter. — Howard W. French

I believe in love but the kind which doesn't exist, replied Nandini, only to become extremely self-conscious. — Varsha Dixit

I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about the capabilities of the people you're working with, what are their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most brilliant actors need the spine of the text to work off of, and there's no shame in that; they're actors, not writers. — Lynn Shelton

I installed a skylight in my apartment ... The people who live above me are
furious! — Steven Wright

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence. — Ken Danby