"At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off."

-- Joshua Bell

#Upset Quotes #Halls Quotes #Cellphone Quotes

“Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.”
“The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my sorrows, the guide of my soul through this gloomy labyrinth of time, the telescope went from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the amazing glories of the far distant world.”
“You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.”
“I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.”
“The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.”
“The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.”
“I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.”

Source : Margaret Walker (2014). “Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker”, p.23, University of Georgia Press
“The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.37

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