Sallinen Opera Quotes & Sayings

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story) — Scott Westerfeld

I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible. — Patrick Modiano

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground? — Voltaire

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself. — Richard Serra

I wish I could make you like death a little more. It's a great preserver. Without it the loveliest things change slowly into face, as you will discover if you insist on having much more life. — Alasdair Gray

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

I vowed that I would never relinquish my sense of self again, to anything or anyone. — Piper Kerman

I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing. — Frank Lampard

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality. — Shyam Selvadurai

It seemed as if the longer she lived, the more was taken from her. Not gradually, as old age fell into the inevitable, but lobbed off in great chunks, the healthy branches sacrificed along with the frail. — Shelley Noble

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young. — Vestal McIntyre