"The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change."

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Michelene Wandor

#Tip Of The Iceberg Quotes #Iceberg Quotes

“This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.”
“We are mortgaging our future.”

Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.
“I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all the lies he tells. Everyone knows he is not to be trusted. Wake up Coffee machine on its way.”

Source : "Irving Azoff's Wife on Ari Emanuel Feud: 'I Wish Ari Success and Happiness'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 26, 2013.
“Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list.”
“No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “The Masquerader (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.285, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.”

Source : "Drake Bell Dishes On His New Album!". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. July 8, 2011.
“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.”
“Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...”

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