Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next. David Crystal Read Quote
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook. Stephen Dobyns Read Quote
I want flowers; I don’t want to text. What does that make me? What kind of dinosaur am I? Jennifer Garner Read Quote
My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don’t know me much as a singer. Robert Guillaume Read Quote
The first story I wrote was called ‘Days,’ and I have very little affection for it. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
My experience of test screenings is that you don’t know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says – and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention. Antoine Fuqua Read Quote
I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don’t just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it’s my favorite. Natalie MacMaster Read Quote
My grandmother’s house – she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn’t have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold. Willard Scott Read Quote
In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off. Mark Foster Read Quote
