Prelinguistic Stage Quotes & Sayings

It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself anything that carried the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called. — George Orwell

Dr. Roth: "I've been waiting a long time to run tests on someone like you."
Daemon: "Another fanboy. I have them everywhere." — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Magic is the motivation to see opportunities for a happier potential. The motivation itself creates the potential. — Shradhdha. S

Tohr laughed softly. Yeah, I'm not much for the emotive crap either-Ouch! Wellsie, what the he*l? — J.R. Ward

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. — Saint Francis De Sales

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country. — Sathya Sai Baba

Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines. — Sigmund Freud

I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans. — Harry Knowles

I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end ... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth. — Paul Cezanne

God's standard of truth entailed more than merely "not lying." In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, "You have heard it said ... but I say unto you." Jesus took the Old Testament laws to a deeper level of meaning and obedience, from the "letter of the Law" to the "Spirit of the Law." Following the letter of the law was the dead "religion" of which Barth, among others, had written. It was man's attempt to deceive God into thinking one was being obedient, which was a far greater deception. God always required something deeper than religious legalism. — Eric Metaxas

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land. — Satish Kumar

There was nothing to be done. From then on, there were flowers waiting for me every time we met, and in the end I gave in, because I was disarmed by the spontaneity of giving and understood tha Lucie cared for it; perhaps her tongue-tied state, her lack of verbal eloquence, made her think of flowers as a form of speech; not in the sense of heavy-handed conventional flower symbolism, but in a sense still more archaic, more nebulous, more instinctive, prelinguistic; perhaps, having always been sparing of words, she longed for that mute stage of evolution when there were no words and people communicated by simple gestures — Milan Kundera

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. — Julian Assange

Every role that I play is a gift and is something that I approach differently. — Jesse Johnson

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body. — Nirmala Srivastava

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old. — Satchel Paige