#statement

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#black #blanket #california #did #fact

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#mixture #statement

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#faster #general #horses #know #omit

I made a statement all my own. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#made #my own #own #statement

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him. ↗

— James Caan

#else #growing #growing up #had #him

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#evidence #false #fiction #find #historians

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#convinced #except #familiar #fbi #greatly

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be. ↗

— Chris Cornell

#creating #doing #enjoy #entertainment #i

Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#begins #clear #frightening #going #i