Spusteni Quotes & Sayings

Some people are slow to do what they promise; you are slow to promise what you have already done. — Suetonius

It is just man's turning away from instinct
his opposing himself to instinct
that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial. — Carl Jung

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public. — Carlisle Floyd

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Kirstein's realization came sometime later, although he could never say exactly where or when. There is not one type of German, went the thought. There were many who were never Nazis, but remained silent out of fear. Nor is there one type of Nazi. There are those who went along to survive, or for career advancement, or out of a sheepish devotion to the status quo. Then there are the hardcases, the true believers. It is possible we will find what we are looking for only when the last true believer is dead. — Robert M. Edsel

Sam was helping animals long before he was Sam Simon. He lived what he believed; his thing was making the world better and having rights for animals, and every area of his life reflected that. — Justin Baldoni

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. — Leo Tolstoy

In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives. — R.M. Donaldson