#voices

Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#out #people #shut #sometimes #voices

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#blooming #colors #everything #heart #instead

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#between #dictate #difference #favor #heard

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. ↗

— Felix Adler

#animating #comforting #past #speaks #stirring

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#god #hear #hum #human #interests

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

#cry #ego #empty #literature #music

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#even #good #good sign #hear #hearing

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#healthy #listening #lots #many #state

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#cord #cut #own #talk #theater