"I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens the sound of its firing. Now, even when I yell, I don't feel like I am using my full voice."

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Source : Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.8, Penguin

Koren Zailckas

#Gun Quotes #Voice Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”
“Mother ... considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage full of cobras.”
“Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and itâ€™s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.”

Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.
“... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.”
“I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”
“I'm up early 'cuz ain't enough light in the daytime”

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