"These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound."

-- Aulis Sallinen

#People Quotes #Sound Quotes #Mass Quotes

“Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.”

Source : P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2007). “Betrayed: A House of Night Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.”

Source : "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.
“You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.”
“Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.”
“I would have made a good pope.”
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”

Source : Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.8, Hachette UK
“[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.”
“No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.”

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