"I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."

-- Marco Polo

#Voice Quotes #Stories Quotes #Ears Quotes

“I just want to get on the court.”
“When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and all the Saints of God.”
“Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?”
“Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.”
“All of my novels are democracies.”
“I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.”
“The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.”
“All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.”

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