Stevie Smith Quotes
See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.
Stevie Smith
Quotes to Explore
I love pain. Love pain.
Cam Gigandet
Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
Fernando Pessoa
Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.
Lewis H. Lapham
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
Charles Rosen
Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.
Kehinde Wiley
It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
Eduardo Paes
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.
Amanda Eliasch
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
John Lancaster Spalding
The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
Idries Shah
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
Whitney Houston
Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.
Bette Midler
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
Confucius
