"Rhetoric never won a revolution yet."

-- Shirley Chisholm

#Revolution Quotes #Rhetoric Quotes

“Before every performance I feel nervous.”

Source : "Diego Boneta Dishes On His New Movie, Rock of Ages". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. January 11, 2012.
“See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.”

Source : W. H. Auden (2013). “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, p.23, Princeton University Press
“I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.”
“The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.”
“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
“I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.”
“Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she said "Oh, I want to introduce you to my friend Madeleine," and that's how I met Madeleine. I realize that's a ridiculous story.”

Source : Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”

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