"I would say that jazz is my own language."

-- Amy Winehouse

#Jazz Quotes #Language Quotes

“Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.”
“A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.”
“It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.118, Faber & Faber
“It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.”
“And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.”
“In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.”
“There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.”
“I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.”

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