"I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words."

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Karl Kraus

#Ideas Quotes #Language Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.”

Source : Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.219
“Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.”

Source : "Shakespeare A Critical Study Of His Mind And Art".
“An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.”
“The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.”

Source : Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books
“I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.”
“I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.”
“Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.”
“But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.”

Source : Usenet message, January 29, 1992.

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