Savanis Quotes & Sayings

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without any quality of persons, some must be free, some serves, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther

I thought about Stockhausen. What had prompted him to call the attacks a work of art? For him, I thought, it was not a matter of finding death beautiful, but rather seeing that someone had taken liberties in reality that an artist could only dream of. That was both the virtue and the vice of art. In art, you can kill with impunity - destroy the world, perpetrate a holocaust, whip up the apocalypse. But it's only art. You can blow up five million people in an opera and not have anywhere near the impact of blowing up five thousand in reality. Stockhausen seemed to realize this, since the terrorism caused him to feel that being a composer was nothing. In that sense, his words were a moral statement about the limits of art, not an immoral statement about aestheticizing destruction. — Supervert

You're surrounded by other people all the time. And you have to take responsibility if you're the eldest or one of the older siblings, and you're constantly communicating in a way that perhaps you aren't if you're in a smaller family. — Harry West

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do. — Steve Guttenberg

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world. — Sarah Orne Jewett