Kontova Marina Quotes

#1. Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.

Steven Wright

#2. You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

James F. Cooper

#4. Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

Jose Carreras

#5. Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Hannah Arendt

#6. Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

A.R. Ammons

#8. I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

Rod Stewart