"if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead."

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Source : Rosalie Maggio, The Women's Media Center (2015). “Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language”, p.33, Open Road Media

Rosalie Maggio

#Language Quotes #Consistent Quotes #Speakers Quotes

“While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.”
“We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.”
“I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.”
“You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 01, 2015
“The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy the wicked pleasure of chocolate... entirely by myself. Furtiveness makes it better.”
“The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.”

Source : 1982 Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.
“I just feel that you reach a point when its time to move on.”

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