Cisternae Quotes & Sayings

When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner - who coined the term "gesamtkunstwerk," or "total art work." That's what was going on in the 19th century, and the 20th century just kept it going. — DJ Spooky

To fail to love is not to exist at all. — Mark Van Doren

Chance waited patiently until she stopped. — Jerzy Kosinski

The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right. — David Wilkerson

When good Americans die, they go to Paris"
"Where do bad Americans go?"
"They stay in America — Oscar Wilde

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. — Marge Piercy

Yeah, I know you think I'm a fucking moron, but I can figure it out if you only use small words, — Hanya Yanagihara

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right. — Hannah More

Failure is good as long as it doesn't become a habit. — Michael Eisner

The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport. — Anna Quindlen