"And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making."

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Source : Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle of the Ninth”, p.479, Oxford University Press - Children

Rosemary Sutcliff

#Men Quotes #Different Quotes #Noise Quotes

“Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!”
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
“It can never be wrong to give pleasure.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”
“The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.”
“It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.”

Source : Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.260, Del Rey
“It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated. I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs.”
“I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?”
“In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.”

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