"The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Talking Quotes #Voice Quotes #People Quotes

“Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.”
“The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.”
“Sometimes a slight pace change is all you need to snap out of a mental or pyhsical funk.”
“Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.”
“Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.”
“Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.”

Source : Curzio Malaparte (2007). “Woman Like Me”, p.7, Troubador Publishing Ltd
“We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.”
“Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment the listening hours,-- Whisperings, wooings, Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills! Dark the night Yet is she bright, For in her dark she brings the mystic star, Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love, From some unknown afar.”

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