"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."

-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Voice Quotes #Talking Quotes #Flats Quotes

“I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York in the late '50s, there were a lot of experiments being made on how to avoid playing popular standards and how to get improvising out of those constricting formats.”
“Costis bowed stiffly. â€œI am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.”
“You fall off the horse and you get back on.”
“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
“I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.”
“I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests are protected because I know, whatever happens, these are the forests that contain biodiversity, these are the forests that help us retain water when it rains and keep our rivers flowing, these are the forests that many future generations will need.”
“Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.”

Source : Look magazine, June 14, 1956.
“I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, Iâ€™m humbled that you chose me.”

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