"Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown."

-- Petrarch

#Style Quotes #Language Quotes #Empty Quotes

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.”
“For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.”

Source : "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.
“Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face”
“A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.”
“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”
“Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes...”
“Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.”

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