#tap

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#languages #metaphysical #most #nouns #verbs

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. ↗

— Dar Williams

#because #funny #funny thing #go #got

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'. ↗

— Ian Williams

#cats #cow #filming #get #go

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#corny #how #i #into #know

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#chairs #experts #i #next #our

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#grail #heart #holy #holy grail #i

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#everything #found #grammar #harmony #language

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us. ↗

— Roy Wood

#actually #album #always #band #bit

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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