Perpignan Quotes

#1. My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos ... in this respect this is a savage country.

Frederic Chopin

#2. I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.

Anna Popplewell

#3. Let us take pleasure in what we have received and make no comparison; no man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another.

Seneca.

#4. Well, Dude," said Khalil, "sometimes you just have to get over shit

Thea Harrison

#5. I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

Salma Hayek

#6. That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

Adam Yauch

#7. I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

Werner Herzog

#8. We are so isolated here in Haworth, with no one of our own age to befriend, and the men and women of Verdopolis are real, in a way. It wouldn't seem strange to me if ... Someone ... Might even fall in love with one of them.

Lena Coakley

#9. It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

Lytton Strachey

#10. My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and she came from the war and all that stuff. She really has an artist's soul.

David LaChapelle

#11. Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.

H. Raven Rose

#12. If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

Stephen Sondheim

#13. The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

Lillian B. Rubin

#14. His warm eyes stay locked onto mine and I want to melt right on the spot. I know him but I don't. I want him but I don't. I need him but I don't.

J.L. Mac

#15. They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

G.H. Hardy

#16. Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes - extravagant treats that aren't as calorie-laden when we're wearing flip flops.

Sarah MacLean