Has beens Quote by John Banville Download Open image “The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.” — John Banville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Has beens Language Mesh Real World
The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene:… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Her own mother had died when Anna was twelve and since then father and daughter had faced the world like a pair of nineteenth-century… — John Banville Copy Share Image
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling -- this is a further… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“I have ever had the conviction, resistant to all rational considerations, that at some unspecified future moment the continuous rehearsal which is my life,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.” — John Banville Copy Share Image
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.” — John Banville Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
