"Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like."

-- David Crystal

#Mean Quotes #Independent Quotes #People Quotes

“Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.”
“I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.”
“Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm, big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.”

Source : Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.115, Univ of California Press
“Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.”
“A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.”

Source : Simon Soloveychik (2010). “Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?”, p.30, Aigul Aubanova
“In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.”
“If you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont.”

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