#use

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#before #ever #growing #jargon #most

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#because #change #charge #i #i can

When I sing full-on I use my whole body. I open my throat and let it fly out. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#fly #full-on #i #open #out

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#intelligence #invented #made #man #stupidity

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#baroque #contemporary #epochs #expressions #findings

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #condition #did #elements #him

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #cannot #feign #himself #innocence

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#forget #honour #man #never #never forget

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#because #just #just because #opponent #right

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#because #busy #dark #dark side #denying