"Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that."

-- Evelyn Glennie

#Years Quotes #Hearing Quotes #Losing Quotes

“I'd just as soon freeze to death.”
“Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.”
“(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.”
“You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.”
“Softening what is rigid in our hearts...”
“I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night.”
“Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]”
“Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?”

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