"Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey."

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Source : Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy (1987). “Language in Literature”, p.410, Harvard University Press

Roman Jakobson

#May Quotes #Language Quotes

“There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.”

Source : "Alex Turner" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 10, 2012.
“That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.”
“There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.”
“People like to say you're either born with style or you're not, and that's complete hooey. You've gotta develop your own and find your own.If you just put on whatever they're trying to sell you, you will always be out of fashion. Otherwise, they can't keep selling you. So, you will always be out of fashion. Get used to it. That's the game. Whatever they say is fashionable, chuck it.”
“I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.”
“God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.”
“To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.”
“There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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