Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
– John Green
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- He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories. – Alan Hollinghurst
- Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
- We are not always shaped by our parents, Cas. We’re shaped by our choices. – Sarah Dalton
- I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. – Joan Mir
- The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise. – Debasish Mridha
- The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. – John Oliver
- Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them. – Faraaz Kazi
- Words are incomplete and yet we need them. They are the cups that give our memories shape, and keep them from trickling away. – Carolina De Robertis
- …language always occurs in a context – you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset… – John Geddes
- I learned about women — how we are made into the women we’ve become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other. – Aminatta Forna
- We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. – Marshall McLuhan
- You don’t blame your shadow for the shape of your body, just the same, don’t blame others for the shape of your experience. – Gillian Duce
- As water changes its shape according to the shape of the vessel, I change myself by changing my thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
- We don’t blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don’t blame others for the shape of your experience. – Gillian Duce
- Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness? – AP
- The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose. – Colin S Smith
- The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
- There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals. – John Updike
- Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future… – Neil Gaiman
- The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- All women speak two languages:-¨the language of men-¨and the language of silent suffering.-¨ Some women speak a third,-¨the language of queens. – Mohja Kahf
- Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. – Alan Moore
- The world is shaped by two things -” stories told and the memories they leave behind. – Vera Nazarian
- She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. – Michael Ondaatje
- Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature’s language into the hands of another language foreign to it. – Theodor Adorno
- There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them. – Jack London
- English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning. – Laura Fraser
- And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future. – Lois Lowry
- For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true. – John Green
- Sometimes I dream that I’m writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public. – John Green
- The town was paper, but the memories were not. – John Green
- …that it is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. – Brian Friel
- Love brought its tail of pains,its long static beam of thorns,and we close our eyes so that nothing,so that no wound will separate us. – Pablo Neruda
- A static action is never an action. A real action is an action in motion! Dare to do something! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we’re dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in. – Justin Alcala
- The static’s nice. I could do without the screechi – Peter Watts