"While we read a novel, we are insaneâ€”bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Believe Quotes #Book Quotes #Voice Quotes

“A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1957). “The Statesman”
“It's a very different show because of the elements that we're putting in. There's so many different styles of comedy, but Mr. Show was unique to Bob and David - two of the most brilliant performers and writers there are. Their show was based on them. Our show is a bit more broad. We have a cast of 7, we have guests. We can be slightly more topical.”

Source : Source: www.dead-frog.com
“Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.”
“I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.”
“Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.”
“It just isn't the way you've been told. Let me give you an example: Time makes no sense. It really doesn't apply to me; it doesn't fit. My hair gets thin and I can't stay up all night the way I used to. But I don't change...”
“It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin, George Woodcock (1993). “Fugitive writings”, Black Rose Books Ltd
“A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.”

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