"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."

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Source : "A Lover's Discourse (Talking)". Bok by Roland Barthes, 1977.

Roland Barthes

#Desire Quotes #Skins Quotes #Language And Power Quotes

“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”

Source : "Testimony to the Inquisition". Translation by Charles Yriarte, July 18, 1573.
“When you look back, history is not going to be kind to these last 16 years from 2000 to 2016.”
“You can feel a lot of things, and that's okay. Channel that into your passion.”
“I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.”

Source : "Wanda woman". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.
“Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.”
“To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.”

Source : Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown (2014). “Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects”, p.91, New Society Publishers
“Jessica Tandy. Nice company! And Ruth Gordon. They worked all along. She didn't really get any big star recognition until Driving Miss Daisy. So what if it takes me that long? Slow and steady wins the race, right? Better a tortoise than a hare.”
“Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.”

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