Especificar In English Quotes & Sayings

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas. — Peter Ackroyd

What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real. — Parker Stevenson

You're mine," I growl, possession crashing through me. "Never forget it, JJ. You've always been mine. — Roxy Sloane

I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great. — Pauline Quirke

It's exemplification of our moment in American culture and American cultural journalism. It is an accurate document of the discourse of "takes." This movie, that book, this poem, that painting, this record, that show: Make a smart remark and move on. A take is an opinion that has no aspiration to a belief, an impression taht never hardens into a position. Its lightness is its appeal. It is provisional, evanescent, a move in a game, an accredited shallowness, a bulwark against a pause in the conversation. A take is expected not to be true but to be interesting, and even when it is interesting it makes no troublesome claim upon anybody's attention. Another take will quickly follow, and the silence that is a mark of perplexity, of research and reflection, will be mercifully kept at bay. A take asks for no affiliation. It requires no commitment. — Leon Wieseltier

There comes a time when one must be strong with rationalists, for they can reduce anything whatever to dust, if they happen not to like the look of it, or if it threatens their deep-buried negativism. I mean of course rationalists like you, who take some little provincial world of their own as the whole of the universe and the seat of all knowledge. — Robertson Davies

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Having - and keeping to - a regular exercise routine is crucial. And forget about those extreme diets - they aren't healthy. — Lee Byung-hun

I'm yearning for more, despite the odds Lord Jesus. — Euginia Herlihy

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. — Barbara Kingsolver