"I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language……" — Alasdair Gray
"I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart."
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Alasdair Gray
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17 Quotes by Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray has 17 quotes on this site.
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I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
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Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about…
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Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a…
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But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These…
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Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
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Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into…
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No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way…
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Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already…
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I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of…
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Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
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Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing…
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More Cannot Lie Quotes
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
— Menno Simons
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If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points…
— Adolf Hitler
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
— Harold Evans
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Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I like big butts and I cannot lie
— Sir Mix-a-Lot
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of…
— Mathew Roydon
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What is your assurance of salvation? The promise of God's Word. If God says it, that settles it, because God…
— Rick Warren
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To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
— M.C. Escher
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It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the…
— James A. Baldwin
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We have full confidence in Jesus Christ. Our confidence rises as the character of God becomes greater and more trustworthy…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that…
— Walter J. Phillips
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