"I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition."

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Source : "Mike Nichols, Master of Invisibility" by Charles Mcgrath, www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2009.

Mike Nichols

#Silence Quotes #My Favorite Quotes #Silence Love Quotes

“an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.”
“The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.”
“My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.”
“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
“I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.”
“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 18, 2010
“If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
“Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'. Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character?”

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