"The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service."

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Source : Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

Lucian

#Dance Quotes #Voice Quotes #Lips Quotes

“If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.”
“I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.”

Source : "Remixing Philip Glass". Interview with Zachary Woolfe, www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2012.
“That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.”
“All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.”
“If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts.”
“I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.”
“I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India

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