"My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he expressed it,it lost all value, and enjoyed but a commonplace status. My friend blamed this devaluation on the language. "I hate English," he said. So he studied another language. He mastered it so perfectly that there was no room left in his brain for a brilliant idea. Now he has a grudge against words. He refuses to use them. He prefers to shrug or grunt. A new crop of ideas is growing. They show promise of future refinement."

-- Marvin L. Cohen

#Hate Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.”
“Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.”
“Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.”
“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.”
“Never mistake legibility for communication.”
“You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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