Accidents Quote by Anne Carson Download Open image “What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.” — Anne Carson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accidents Body Burning Fear Language
The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share
Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all. — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Town of the Dragon Vein If you wake up too early listen for it. A sort of inverted whistling the sound of sound. Being… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“On the Rules of Perspective A bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
