Dormant Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Download Open image “There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dormant Language Mind
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Nekada davno, u djetinjstvu, možda is toga što sam odrastao među knjigama i knjižarima, odlučio sam da želim postati pisac i živjeti životom punim… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman must accept… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later,… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
