"Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Taken Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes #Trying Quotes

“What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2005). “Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.
“The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.”
“Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.”
“A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.”
“Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.”
“There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.”
“Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

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