Pacified South Quotes & Sayings

I deny that either singers or conductors can create or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss. — Giuseppe Verdi

All he feels is the bored emptiness of the flat, flat world. And there's no one who bores him more than himself. — David Levithan

When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn't added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface. — Adrian Frutiger

Dr Allendy said that it was necessary to become equal to life, that the romantic was defeated by life, really died of it, whether by tuberculosis in the old days, or by neurosis today. I had never thought before of the connection between neurosis and romanticism. Wanting the impossible? Dying when unable to reach it? Not wanting to compromise? — Anais Nin

Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable. — Pope Gregory I

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us. — John Galsworthy

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books. — Carlos Maria Dominguez

It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy. — George Orwell

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty. — Dwight D. Eisenhower