"But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible"

-- Anne McCaffrey

#Use Quotes #Speech Quotes #Cadence Quotes

“Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.”
“Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.”
“And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism,”

Source : "Iranian leader: Wipe out Israel". www.cnn.com. October 27, 2005.
“He who travels much has this advantage over others â€“ that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage â€“ that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.”

Source : Giacomo Leopardi (2002). “Thoughts: And, The Broom [or The Flower of the Desert]”, Hesperus Press
“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.”
“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
“For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.”
“This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. We played with their unique shapes and tinkered with their infinite possibilities. The challenge was hard, so the reward of â€œcrackingâ€ a word felt great. This became a lifelong project for me.”

Source : "Word as Image: 90 Animated Words". Book by Ji Lee, October 4, 2011.

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