"Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding."

-- Dean Acheson

#Feet Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Advertising Quotes

“I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages to English, there is often a choice between a Latinate cognate and a Germanic equivalent. An easy example would be the Portuguese escuridÃ£o: English offers both obscurity and dark or darkness, and some translators will tell you the Latinate word is generally reserved for poetic and figurative expressions, while the Germanic word is used for colloquial and idiomatic use.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.”
“My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.”
“I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.”
“Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.”

Source : "Spotify's Daniel Ek: 'We want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create'". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.
“It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Littlefoot: A Poem”, p.9, Macmillan
“I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.”
“You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.”

Source : "Stephen Amell Talks ARROW, How He Won the Role, the Evolution of the Queen Family Dynamic, Appearances by Other DC Characters, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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