"To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed."

-- Joan Didion

#Writing Quotes #Cameras Quotes #Structure Quotes

“I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?”
“I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.”
“One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.”
“I love telling myself jokes. I think I'm a riot.”
“In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
“The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.”
“To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.”
“Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in the hippocampus that ultimately differentiate into fully functional neurons.”

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