"Iâ€˜ve said it once and I will say it again, why canâ€˜t everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go â€” why canâ€˜t other nations?"

-- Louise Rennison

#Giving Quotes #Speak Quotes #Said Quotes

“I think beauty is an expression of love.”
“There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]”
“People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.”

Source : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.7, Harper Collins
“Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”
“It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones, but I think it is already clear that John Rawls is the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century.”
“I love Marcel Proust, but I leave him to his nostalgia. I don't approach art the way most people do. I don't get into Proust by imagining that I am Charlus or whoever. It's the same thing in painting - I try to look at it objectively. There's no pathos in that. It's like Bach's "Goldberg Variations." They have to be approached with a scalpel.”
“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”

Source : Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.13, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.”

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

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