"It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade."

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Source : Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

Josephine Tey

#Use Quotes #Jargon Quotes #Speech Quotes

“A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”
“I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!”
“I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language”
“If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.231, Harvard University Press
“It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.”
“Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.”
“They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative”

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