"My voice is still the same, and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh, mon Dieu, when I think what I might be able to do with it!"

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Source : Jenny Lind, Amalia Wichmann (1966). “The lost letters of Jenny Lind”

Jenny Lind

#Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.”
“When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.”
“I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!”
“If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.”
“My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.”

Source : "Olympic appetites: how 8 top athletes eat to win" by Michelle Edelbaum, www.eatingwell.com. July 10, 2012.
“Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.”

Source : Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (1997). “The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities”, Greenery Press (CA)
“Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.”

Source : Robert Henry Newell (1871). “Versatilities”, p.16
“If anything, a message back to [Donald] Trump is, if you have proof, if you have evidence, please bring it forward. Procedures are in place to investigate any real voter fraud.”

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