#press

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#each #express #language #making #might

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#body #control #disorder #eating #feeling

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#carrying #dead #france #heard #how

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choose #circumstances #class #creating #every

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#born #depression #i #i was born #mount

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#action #child #every #expression #facial

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#comfort #doubt #expressions #intercourse #job

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. ↗

— Dan Savage

#bullied #effeminate #expectations #expression #gender

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses. ↗

— Dan Savage

#city #cop #corpses #dad #depressing

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#analysis #benefit #boards #chess #compress