Lingodiversity Quotes & Sayings

The private little world that I create with my music is something that most people like to listen to alone and get into. — Cat Stevens

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread. — Nicolas Chamfort

Dichotomies are an inherent part of comics, aren't they? Comics are both pictures and words. They blend time and space. Many feature characters with dual identities like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Cartoonists also tend to live dichotomous lives because many of us have day jobs. — Gene Luen Yang

Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end. — Tracy McMillan

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister. — Helen Clark

If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self. — Rumi

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay. — Scott Westerfeld

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight. — John Fahey

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people. — Rene Auberjonois

If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be. — Bill Bryson

Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world. — Henry Rollins

What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act on stage, all you have to do is listen to the music. The composer has already seen to that." If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with your ears - and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also - you will find every gesture there. And it is all true, you know. — Maria Callas

When we are in front of an abstract painting, we have the license to interpret in any way we want. Or music - music is a medium that we might not understand, but that we feel and enjoy. But in the case of cinema many expect to receive a clear and unified message, but what I'm suggesting is that a film could be experienced as a poem, a painting, or a piece of music. — Abbas Kiarostami