Coquetterie Ludwig Quotes & Sayings

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place. — Rufus Wainwright

Nothing great happens without a great idea. — Debasish Mridha

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. — Maureen Dowd

My purpose isn't to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivable. — Aleksandra Mir

We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable
that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over. — Philip Zimbardo

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space. — Bodhidharma

If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world. — Michael Jackson

It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper. — Stewart O'Nan

She could have a Grammy I'd still treat her ass like a nominee. — Drake