"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."

-- David Guterson

#Voice Quotes #Levels Quotes #Range Quotes

“God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that itâ€™s sinking.”

Source : Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.122, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“That doesn't mean that the top fifteen institutions in the ranking somehow don't belong there at all. But what is the difference between number two and number eight in any meaningful sense? As an administrator who worked to build a complex university, I find the assumption slightly offensive. We need to be committed to excellence, not to lists.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.”
“We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.”

Source : "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.
“Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.”
“God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.”
“Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.”

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