"The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears."

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Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “Brother Cadfael's Penance”, p.68, Head of Zeus

Ellis Peters

#Talking Quotes #Voice Quotes #Usual Quotes

“Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.”
“The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.”

Source : André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.140, Univ of California Press
“It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.”
“The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.”
“Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.”
“I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.”
“Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client.”

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