"All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives."

-- Evelyn Underhill

“Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.”
“Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.”
“I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.”
“I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon?”
“I get recognised a lot. If there are a load of school kids together, they'll shout at me, but I'm quite good at giving grief back. I give as good as I get.”

Source : "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.
“Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.”

Source : Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.84, Open Road Media
“Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear.”
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!”

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