Madame Shoushou Quotes & Sayings

And every day there is music. One dark voice will start a phrase, half-sung, and like a question. And after a moment another voice will join in, soon the whole gang will be singing. The voices are dark in the golden glare, the music intricately blended, both somber and joyful. The music will swell until at last it seems that the sound does not come from the twelve men on the gang, but from the earth itself, or the wide sky. It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. Then slowly the music will sink down until at last there remains one lonely voice, then a great hoarse breath, the sun, the sound of the picks in the silence.
And what kind of gang is this that can make such music? Just twelve mortal men, seven of them black and five of them white boys from this country. Just twelve mortal men who are together. — Carson McCullers

Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business. — Clara Barton

Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim
but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration. — Dan Gable

Misogyny was born of fear of women. — Sarah B. Pomeroy

Seeing her again was like unearthing an emotional library card with a lot of overdues. — Craig Johnson

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out. — Chris Noth

I thought if you loved someone you were supposed to, like, forgive them. I thought that was what love was supposed to be all about."
Cork shook his head: "Easy to say, harder to do. — William Kent Krueger

If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared. — Jasper Fforde

My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view. — Zeresenay Alemseged

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure. — Zig Ziglar

I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me. — T.I.

Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version — George Orwell