"If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt."

-- George Henry Lewes

#Lying Quotes #Class Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.”
“Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.”
“I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!”

Source : Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1872). “Life and Letters of Catherine M. Sedgwick”, p.405
“I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.”
“Be a scientist, save the world.”
“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited
“Opportunities are where the complaints are.”
“What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.”

Source : Speech at the Oxford Union, 2 December 1920, in Beverley Nichols '25' (1926) ch. 7

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