"Grammar is a piano I play by ear."

-- Joan Didion

#Play Quotes #Piano Quotes #Ears Quotes

“I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it relieves nasal congestion. What I'm saying is that it actually works, which is something you can say about very few other aspects of the medical establishment.”
“The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.”

Source : "The whole world in our hands" by Neil MacGregor, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2004.
“I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.”
“Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all...”
“I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.”
“In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.”
“The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words -- is not limited by words -- nor does it have the specificity of words and thus cannot be broken onto parts that can be manipulated or analyzed by the intellect. It must be swallowed, whole not parsed, sorted and justified.”
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”

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