"Speech is the small change of silence."

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Source : 'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 34

George Meredith

#Silence Quotes #Speech Quotes

“Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.”

Source : "The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music, 1933.
“For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.”
“Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.”
“Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.”
“And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.”
“We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.”
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.”

Source : Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.140, University of Chicago Press
“Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.”

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