#convey

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#certain #certain way #convey #everybody #got

The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003! ↗

— Brian Sibley

#biggest challenge #challenge #cinemas #convey #end

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#convey #effort #elevation #give #human

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#advent #conveys #message #much #poem

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#begins #classroom #closest #convey #family

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

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I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#any #audiences #because #being #convey

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

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