"To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto notes alone give an adequate sense of pathos. They are born near the heart."

-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#Nice Quotes #Heart Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we donâ€™t answer the telephone, we donâ€™t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything”
“I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.”
“The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.”
“I see being a woman in the world as a social problem. That's very urgently problematic in terms of it still being a man's world, and women's identities still being shaped by the way men look at them, and the way men can control what kinds of opportunities they can get based on how desirable the men find them, or how compliant. I don't think that's really changed a lot.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber
“We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.”

Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
“To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ who is our life.”
“This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality.”

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