Peter242 Quotes & Sayings

There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together — Rumi

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this — Lee Kuan Yew

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing? — Jaron Lanier

We talk about normal, and for legal and practical reasons set a bar for expected societal norms. But can any of us really claim normality?" Rese — Kristen Heitzmann

You see, my parents never cut off my head physically...But maybe emotionally...Most parents love their children and try to take care of them the best that they can. But parents mess up, all the time. — Adam Gidwitz

Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Because men
are killing the forests
the fairy tales are running away.
The spindle doesn't know
whom to prick,
the little girl's hands
that her father has chopped off,
haven't a single tree to catch hold of,
the third wish remains unspoken.
King Thrushbeard no longer owns one thing.
Children can no longer get lost.
The number seven means no more than exactly seven.
Because men have killed the forests,
the fairy tales are trotting off to the cities
and end badly. — Gunter Grass

Other approaches to studying language, and there are many, go by names like poetics, philology, and rhetoric, but as long as we have had the word in English, linguistics has been associated with the methods, goals, and results of science.1 When William Whewell (who is also responsible for the coinage, scientist) first proposed the term, it was in his History of the Inductive Sciences (1837.1:cxiv; he was borrowing it from the Germans, who, Teutonically
enough, later came to prefer Sprachwissenschaft). — Randy Allen Harris

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior. — Michael Douglas

Everything was soft about her, her voice, her smile, her laugh; her eyes, which were small and pale, had the softness of flowers; her manner was as soft as the summer rain. — W. Somerset Maugham

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together. — Ronald Reagan

Not the dreams where we are hunted by the monsters, but the dreams where we are the monsters. We raise bloody hands to the sky and scream, not from fear, but from joy. The pure joy of slaughter. The cathartic moment when we plunge our hands into the hot blood of our enemies and there is no civilized thought to stop us from dancing on their graves. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird. — Kurt Fuller