"Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high."

-- David Rodigan

#People Quotes #Soul Quotes #Delight Quotes

“Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!”
“I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.”
“The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.”
“Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the twenty-first century, we get that information in other ways. The thing that's still a mystery to us is the human heart. What we want is to understand people, what they're doing, and why they're doing it.”
“Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.”
“Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.”

Source : Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.214, Library of Alexandria
“A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.”
“The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.”

Source : Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.256, Vintage

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