Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Gluck

I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen...

Jonathan Demme

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

Judith Jamison

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Alexander MacLaren

Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. " Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience.

Christopher Reeve

In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.

Michael Pollan

Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.

Slash

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

Slash

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Rajneesh

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.

Louis Freeh

I think we have the tools there. I just think we need more resources,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Neale Donald Walsch

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Andrew Lochart

Even when you've got the tools in place, it's something you want to be vigilant about.

Marshall McLuhan

First we build the tools, then they build us.

Marshall McLuhan

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

Sam Shepard

Words are tools of imagery in motion,

Tim Allen

I have a thing for tools.

Len Wein

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Len Wein

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

Len Wein

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

Terry Tempest Williams

I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

David Douglas

I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.