A Politician Who Dedicates His Life Quotes & Sayings

When I'm speaking, I'm more focused on the words as meaning. When I'm singing, I'm more focused on the words as sound. The emotion is more targeted when I'm speaking, more flowing when I'm singing. — Loren Mazzacane Connors

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. — Patanjali

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature. — Gao Xingjian

Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet. — Willis Regier

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. — George Lucas

Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts. — Jonathan Rauch

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other. — Hermann Bondi

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this. — Douglas Adams

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me. — George Brett

It seemed like the times when we were silent were some of the easiest. — Kiera Cass

Even writers need relief from words. — Sarah Vowell

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them. — Scott Cairns