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George Steiner Quotes

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: April 23, 1929

Topics

Silence Rest Reality Language Deal

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

Jennifer Weiner

Day Job You Quit Hard Get

In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test.

Age People Voting You Down Place

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

Funny Man Therapy Boy Mature Guy

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

Martin O'Malley

Grow Living Prosperity Become More

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

Dance Me Fashion Think Judge You

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.

Son Garden Vegetables Growing How

There's not a lot of gay programming on TV.

Gay Programming TV Lot

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Freedom Conflict Democracy You

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

Talking Quiet Trash Why Days Keep

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

Reality Doing Against Just Would

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

Live People Me Speak Think Language

Birthdays are getting harder as I get older.

Birthdays Get Older Harder Getting

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