“This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.” CharacterFilmSoundCommonWiseAdviceTradition Author:Omar Sharif
“Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.” ThinkingMenArtAgeBeautifulLiteratureSoundFriendshipIntellectualTraditionPerformancesRipeBrethren Book:The Intellectual Life Source: The Intellectual Life
“I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingKindMayUseDreamSpeakLanguageSoundBlackAbilityRaceTakenPiecesTenTraditionTwentiesTongueBlack PeopleMultiplicitySpeaking In Tongues Author:Alexis De Veaux
“If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and exigencies, then it is difficult to believe that the feminism of the passing generation, already hardened into dogma and tradition, represents the completed form of woman's relations to work, interests and society.” IfsBelievePastFormDifficultSoundInterestGenerationsFeminismTraditionRelationPassingPassingsAnalysisDogmaDishesCrowdedHardened Book:Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard
“This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time. It's a really, really old job. When you look at the way that a small band toured back in the '50s, it's similar to the way that a small band tours now. It's been this long tradition, and when you meet somebody who has been doing this for a really long time, you have to have tremendous respect for them.” WayFeelsLooksLongHas BeensJobsSoundBandMusicianLong TimeTraditionCornyReally LongOld Job Author:Will Sheff