“I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.” PeopleWayCharacterFacesLanguageChangedHairBecomingOne WayAccentsAmazed Author:Alicia Keys
“If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.” IfsYearsNamesLanguageChangedForbiddenRevoltHometown Author:Osman Baydemir
“This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not, merely by waking to the reality that is not words , that lies beyond the reach of words. If you are fortunate enough to be Awakened thus, you will know why the finest language is the one that is not spoken, the finest action is the one that is not done and the finest change is the one that is not willed.” IfsKnowsBelieveMeanDoneEnoughRealityActionLyingLanguageEffortChangedFortunateWakingTransformedFinestAwakened Book:One Minute Wisdom Source: One Minute Wisdom
“Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."” ThinkingArtWantedFormFoundLanguageVisionCenturyFieldsObjectsChangedMaterialsMovedComplexesDetailsBoundariesVisualsUnitsPersistentPioneersAlteredNew ThoughtFrame Of ReferenceImpressionism Author:Jasper Johns
“In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.” PeopleIfsMeanAbleAmericaPastLanguageWhiteGoneRightsHavensChangedRacismMonstersCivil RightsErasManifestationRacist Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!” KnowsBookSchoolLanguageResultsClassBoysChangedEnglish LanguageEighteenPrivate School Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley
“. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.” LittlesStillsHardFacesValuesNamesLanguageNationsCitiesNew YorkChangedHard WorkAccomplishmentDecentNeighborhoodValue Of Hard Work Author:David Dinkins
“One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.” NextLanguageDarkStreetsChangedOne DayMovedSentencesNext DayGrammarVerbsAdjectivesNouns Book:On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988 Source: On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988
“My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.” ThinkingUsedLanguageChangedFlowerWeaponsBridgesKnives Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.” IfsThinkingKnowsI CanFilmLanguagePrinciplesMediaHavensChangedAdventureExcitingDecadesExploringNew Media Author:Ang Lee
“John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found footage or maybe it's a little snarkier, but the actual language that kids live in today, like with texting, motion graphics, the internet and that whole hashtag culture doesn't exist in movies today. It's left on the floor.” YearsLittlesMadeWholeKidsTodaySchoolCertainCultureFoundLeftLanguageChangedTypeInternetHigh SchoolStaticTextingHashtagsHigh School Movie Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness” LanguageChangedDestroyingMuseSweetness Author:Dante Alighieri
“I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him was hearing Vivaldi, hearing the sort of manipulation of small cells of information and patterns in order to generate sort of huge blocks of harmony.” ThinkingOrderLanguageCasesInformationChangedHugeHarmonyMusicalPatternsHearingBlockCellsManipulationTransformedBaroqueBaroque MusicVivaldi Author:Mahan Esfahani
“Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey's Kim Baker - changed from Barker - transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to by male war correspondents, soldiers and Afghan officials, into a hard-charging political animal who speaks the language fluently and parties as hard as men. That's about as edgy as a sitcom.” MenWellsWarEndsHardPoliticalSpeakLanguageAnimalPartyFeminismChangedMarkMalesSoldierOfficialsReportersSitcomKimEdgyBakersChargingAfghanFeyApoliticalMissed OnesPolitical Animals Author:David Edelstein
“I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months ... There's magic in the language. I never fell out of the enchantment.” LanguageVoiceMagicChangedMonthsWowShatteredEnchantment Author:Andrew Lam
“Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with our bands, you know? That's obviously changed, because in Europe they're much more interested in bands speaking their own language. Especially in France and Germany. They're starting to develop their own bands much more.” KnowsWorldKindUsedLanguageNationsAttitudeChangedBandEuropeStartingPopsFranceGermanyBritainEmpiresPop Music Author:James Dean Bradfield
“I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.” IfsWayBelieveUseUsedLanguageI BelieveOpinionChangedPerspectiveUniversalInstrumentsFeministArtificialSensibility Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color "criminals" and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.” PeopleUseLeftLanguageSocialJusticeRaceBehindsPracticeChangedColorStructureCriminalsDiscriminationLabelsErasRelyOur SocietyJustifyContemptCollapseJustificationLeft BehindCrowJustice SystemExclusionCriminal JusticeJim CrowCriminal Justice System Author:Michelle Alexander