"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."
― Joan Didion
Topic(s):
Power
More From Joan Didion
- "Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"
- "Before I’d written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when you’ve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people’s ability to do that."
- "Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."
More In Power
- "The way to have power is to take it."― Boss Tweed
- "What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks."― Eric Cantona
- "Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny."― Huey Newton