"That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!"

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Source : James Hogg (1855). “The Poetical Works of the Ettrick Shepherd: With an Autobiography; and Illustrative Engravings, Chiefly from Original Drawings”, p.294

James Hogg

#Voice Quotes #Dumb Quotes #Desert Quotes

“I probably wouldn't even be here now if it weren't for chiropractic”
“Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.”
“Unbelievable. After what just happened between us no, I donâ€™t have any right. None at all. Weâ€™re barely a couple. Weâ€™re not even sleeping together. I have to-" What in Godâ€™s name are you babbling about?" "Youâ€™re cheating on me!" "I never cheat.”
“Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!”

Source : Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough”, p.556
“The operas that I do are more in the operetta world, but I've gotten to do them in all of these major opera companies so it's been really wild. And I feel comfortable in that world because I went Cincinnati Conservatory and I hung out with all those kinds of people, I love hanging out with them and I understand them and their "diva-osity."”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.”
“Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.”

Source : Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books
“Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.”

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