"I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf."

-- Evelyn Glennie

#Musician Quotes #Deaf Quotes

“Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!”

Source : "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.”
“When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.”
“You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race.”
“When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.”
“Gossip has been described as halitosis of the mind.”
“Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.”

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