Dahlia Ravikovitch Quotes & Sayings

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear. — Ricky Skaggs

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. — Gautama Buddha

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens. — Ann Patchett

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex. — Vladimir Nabokov

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done. — Napoleon Hill

Goodness itself, in other words, if it is sufficiently committed to plausible, right-handed, strong-arm methods, will in the very name of goodness do all and more than all that evil ever had in mind. — Robert Farrar Capon

A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills. — Blanche Willis Howard

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned. — Barry Hughart