"I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell."

-- Jessye Norman

#Affliction Quotes #Particular Quotes

“Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of your ideas makes someone mad, thereâ€™s little you can do about it. Jesusâ€™ teaching made some people furious. Just make sure itâ€™s your ideas that offend and not you, that your beliefs cause the dispute and not your behavior.”
“Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and not at all driven by ego or championing who he is as an individual. It's all about the art. Whereas Herzog is constantly placing himself into the engine. Malick is such a gentle poet.”
“I feel like every great record is like a world in itself.”
“Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.”
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
“There can be no literary equivalent to truth.”
“It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.”
“Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.”

You may also like:

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Baritone
James Levine
Conductor
Kathleen Battle
Opera singer
Kiri Te Kanawa
Opera Singer
Kurt Masur
Conductor
Marian Anderson
Singer
Montserrat Caballe
Operatic soprano
Placido Domingo
Conductor
Renee Fleming
Consultant