"I quit my job at the helium gas factory. I didn't like being spoken to in that voice."

-- Stewart Francis

#Jobs Quotes #Voice Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.”

Source : Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.150, Harvard University Press
“I live in the same house I've lived in for 25 years. I haven't gone off and bought mansions. Even though my subject is living, living in a mansion wouldn't do for my readers. I have to keep my credibility alive with my readers, so we're in the same place. I just make that place nicer and nicer. And that's a secret. People don't know that. People think, oh, she lives in this fabulous place, but it's the same old place. It started out like a farm, it got to be a farmette, then it got to be an estatelet. I built a wall; it helped a lot. But it's the same place, the same grounded nature.”
“I'm 28 now and they say you peak at 28 - so my best years are still ahead of me.”
“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.”
“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.”

Source : "Inherit the Wind". Play by Jerome Lawrence, 1955.
“Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.”
“I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.”
“Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.”

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