"So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary..."

-- Francine Prose

#Mean Quotes #Character Quotes #Expression Quotes

“My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.”
“An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.”

Source : J. J. C. Smart, J. J. Haldane (2008). “Atheism and Theism”, p.82, John Wiley & Sons
“We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.”
“Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.”
“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.”
“I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.”
“A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciÃ¦ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.”

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