“I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.”
Diane Sawyer (1945) American journalist
Attributed to Diane Sawyer in: R.L. Messner, S.J. Lewis (1996) Increasing patient satisfaction p. 185
“I'm always fascinated by etymology.”
Small talk: Dermot Healy, 2011
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A. R. Rahman (1966) Indian singer and composer
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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
Context: The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience. Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. By a happy dispensation of nature, the poet generally possesses the gift of experience in conjunction with that of expression.
“Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
“I'm so lucky that he agreed. A fascinating tale.”
Arin Paul (1980) Indian film director
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Robert D. San Souci (1946–2014) Children's writer
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Natalie Merchant (1963) American singer-songwriter
Orlando Sentinel (6 November 1992)
Context: I grew up as a TV baby, with my TV babysitter, up until I was about 10. Then my mother just ripped the thing out of the wall and put it in a closet, and we didn't watch it. I have that sort of ability to become addicted to it. And I'm just so fascinated by it once I turn it on, I'm not even that aware what's there. I'm just watching it. So I don't ever turn it on. I get my news from the newspaper. I don't want to watch the Hollywood news product on TV... There's no other piece of furniture in my home I'd stare at for three hours at a time, so I try not to do it to the TV.
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Sono affascinato da tutto ciò che è rischioso, folle e non ordinario. La vita non è infinita, amo vivere ogni opportunità.
Source: prevale.net
“Etymology is a science in which vowels signify nothing at all, and consonants very little.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Quote attributed by Max Müller (1823–1900), Lectures on the Science of Language (2003), Kessinger Publishing, p. 238
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