"I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me."

-- Mary Antin

#Art Quotes #Drama Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.”
“... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.”

Source : Dorothy Hewett (1968). “Windmill country”
“I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.
“I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.”
“Nobody really knows her Except the chosen few Her secrets are kept hidden Behind that sun-kissed hue. If I reach out to touch her Sheâ€™ll just run away My Forever and Always Will have to wait another day.”
“We no longer see the world as a single entity. We've moved to cities and we think the economy is what gives us our life, that if the economy is strong we can afford garbage collection and sewage disposal and fresh food and water and electricity. We go through life thinking that money is the key to having whatever we want, without regard to what it does to the rest of the world.”
“All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.”

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