Famous quotes containing the words japanese, language, proficiency, test and/or previous:
“I am a lantern
My head a moon
Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin
Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.”
—Sylvia Plath (19321963)
“Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A father who will pursue infant care tasks with ease and proficiency is simply a father who has never been led to believe he couldnt.”
—Michael K. Meyerhoff (20th century)
“In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not really become aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)