“How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.” IdeasHandsEyeRememberSpeakLanguageForceLosesSimpleRoomsDoorsInstrumentsSurpriseFingersLipsShouldersOpeningPerceivePhrasesTranslationsEyebrowsWhisperingExpressiveHindranceSimple Ideas Book:Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic
“The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.” KnowsWarDarkRoomsDarknessDoorsOpeningDark Room Author:Adolf Hitler
“If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.” IfsTryingAmericaBitsRoomsAttentionDecidedOpeningHotelGossipGigsColumnsHotel Rooms Author:Eddie Izzard
“It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.” MindWellsHeartMomentsEyeRoomsGraceGoes OnWake UpWitEnormousOpeningEveningWakingLet It GoOrbitQuicknessPresence Of MindDeflectingOpening Your Eyes Book:The Metamorphosis Source: The Metamorphosis