"An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence."

-- Mary Renault

#Hands Quotes #Silence Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.”
“I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.145, Univ of California Press
“I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“You should never bother trying to remember where you put something. You should just imagine needing to put it somewhere now, then go to the place you pick. Because why would you pick a different location now than you did earlier? Your personality is more stable than that. It's not like we wake up each day as different people. It's just that we don't trust ourselves.”
“Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.”
“Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.”
“Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it ...”

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