Gilbert Highet Quotes

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

Gilbert Highet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: June 22, 1906 - January 20, 1978

Topics

LanguageFeelNewLivingBecomeOut

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

Mia Wasikowska

SmallFeelYouSeeingLookImages

The alpine environment is very delicate. I've been able to see change in the mountains in the 20 years that I've been climbing full-time. Glaciers have receded. The tree-line is changing. That's very rapid to see nature changing in a 20-year period.

Conrad Anker

NatureChangeMountainsEnvironment

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

William Hague

GovernmentKnowRightNastyClique

I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

Liam Payne

TimeWalkPictureFriendsEnjoyBad

If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us.

Kevin Systrom

ChangeCommunityCompanyBringBig

Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with our bodies. Trans people and feminists should be building natural alliances here.

Janet Mock

MedicalPeopleBuildingChooseBody

'Lucky Man' I wrote when I was twelve years old. I wrote it when I first was given a guitar by my mother. I only knew four chords, but I used them all to write that song. And it just stayed with me, stayed in my head. I didn't even write it on a piece of paper. I remembered it.

Greg Lake

MotherManMeSongGuitarLucky

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

Evan Williams

GreatTimeGoogleLikeOur TimeOur

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson

SmileLuckChanceExpensiveFortune

No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog.

Chanel Iman

DogMeCareTake CareCareerNow

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

Terry Gross

FearSomeoneOutGuardBeingFound

I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually.

Terry Zwigoff

TimeMeWindFriendsLongYou

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