"A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that."

-- Sarah Vowell

#Couple Quotes #Reading Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.”

Source : James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.1131, Dell
“Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.”
“Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?”
“God enters through the wound.”
“My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.130
“Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.”

Source : Interview with Baldwin "Smitty" Smith, jazzmonthly.com. October 2006.
“That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.”
“Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.”

Source : Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.65, Harper Collins

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