Giacomo Puccini Quotes

#1. What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. I lived for art, I lived for love

Giacomo Puccini

#3. Que va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

Winston Churchill

#5. I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!

Giacomo Puccini

#6. Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Giacomo Puccini

#7. Forward, always forward, everywhere forward.

Boniface Wimmer

#8. My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.

Neil Diamond

#9. I am very precise about what food I like. I'm very much a nursery-food person, and really hate chichi dishes.

Trinny Woodall

#10. People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Jason Bateman

#11. Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident ... Is this not form?

Giacomo Puccini

#12. See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

Giacomo Puccini

#13. What a rush you're in to show me the last dregs of your vile soul!

Giacomo Puccini

#14. The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably.

Giacomo Puccini

#15. The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

Giacomo Puccini

#16. Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

Vladimir Putin

#17. Even you, o Princess, in your cold room, watch the stars, that tremble with love and with hope. But my secret is hidden within me, my name no one shall know...

Giacomo Puccini

#18. Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

Helen Clark

#19. The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs

Thom Yorke

#20. What is the worst thing about yourself that you like?

Amit Abraham

#21. Art is a kind of illness.

Giacomo Puccini