"First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis."

-- Maria Callas

#Loss Quotes #Voice Quotes #Weight Quotes

“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ...”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”
“I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I'd probably do the cremation bit.”
“I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.”
“Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.”
“Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.”
“I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.”
“And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.”

Source : Dennis Miller (1999). “Ranting Again”, Main Street Books
“Fairness is not about statistical equality.”

Source : "The Saturday interview: John Bercow". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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