Cosettes Father Quotes & Sayings

The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what you do with the voice, which is the mysterious element. It's the personality behind the voice which makes the artist. The voice is a gift of God, but if you're not able to use this gift, what's left? Nothing but a beautiful voice, without nuance or colour. — Cecilia Bartoli

The effortlessness of a performance for which great strength is needed is a spectacle of whose aesthetic beauty the East has an exceedingly sensitive and grateful appreciation. — Eugen Herrigel

Incredibly, the self-starved never appear capable of taking any pleasure in the very vessel for which they've sacrificed. — Lionel Shriver

I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of. — Mac DeMarco

So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind. — Radha Mitchell

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic. — T.F. Hodge

I never used needles, but I was into heroin, cocaine - those are the things I'll never touch again. — Corey Feldman

The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all instances you try to write good sentences. But in a novel you're free to do whatever you want, and in the autobiographical works you can't make things up. — Paul Auster

Jake, who is both fitter and more hedonistic than me, once told me what they say about martinis: "One's perfect. Two's too many. And three's not enough. — Julian Barnes

What I resist persists. What I accept is transformed. — Mirza Yawar Baig

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think. — Noam Chomsky

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in Houston, Texas!" Grandma wiped her hands with a rag. "You'd get heat stroke. — Ilona Andrews