"Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century."

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Source : Connie Willis (2011). “The Doomsday Book”, p.326, Spectra

Connie Willis

#Tired Quotes #People Quotes #Listening Quotes

“What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016
“Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.”
“Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.”
“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.”
“I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.”

Source : "Gustave Courbet".
“A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind.”
“A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.”
“As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.”

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