"Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do."

-- Gregory Maguire

#Animal Quotes #People Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.”

Source : "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.
“When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.”

Source : Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]
“Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.228
“Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.”
“Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my fatherâ€™s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morningâ€™s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!”
“A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.”
“An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.”
“I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.”

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