"I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?"

-- Anne Enright

#Thinking Quotes #Phones Quotes #Talking Quotes

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
“I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months ... There's magic in the language. I never fell out of the enchantment.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.”

Source : Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”
“Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.”
“Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.”
“Will we listen to Satan, the author of all lies … ? Or are we going to believe a loving Heavenly Father, who is the source of all truth and happiness?”

Source : "Satan’s Bag of Snipes". Richard C. Edgley's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October, 2000.
“I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.”
“It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.”

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