Impoliteness Pragmatics Quotes

#1. I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him.

Boy George

#2. Everyone chats and smiles, chats about nothing, shouts and drinks themselves silly occasionally or all the time. They they die one fine day, old or young, they die, tucked up into the earth. That's what it's like. Swarming lives, with no meaning, no number.

Erik Fosnes Hansen

#3. My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

Christopher Nolan

#4. I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

Aida Turturro

#5. I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#6. You have to look on the world with a shine like no one else has.

Colum McCann