"Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about."

-- Donna Jo Napoli

#Language Quotes

“I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.”
“I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.”
“I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“You do your work. You get up in the morning, you choose an outfit, you know? It doesn't have to be the best thing that you wear, you know what I mean? It's music, man. You do an album, complete it, and then musicians are on to the next thing. Nobody cares about how many units it sold as compared to the old one.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.”

Source : Quoted in Alexander Macfarlane, Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (1916). "Pure mathematics; may it never be of use to any man!" is cited as the toast of the Mathematical Society of England in Science, 10 Dec. 1886.
“The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU and the Commission... but every nation has to have the courage to broach such structural reforms and speak clearly about them without making people be afraid.”
“I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!”
“A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.”

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