Petrarchan Quotes

#1. If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft ... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.

Anthony Burgess

#2. Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

Olivo Barbieri

#4. It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

John Sununu

#5. Many philosophers - particularly amateur philosophers, and ancient philosophers - share a dangerous instinct: If you give them a question, they try to answer it.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#6. But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.

Gary Burton

#7. The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer.

Marcel Proust

#8. As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.

Gabriel Iglesias

#9. My name on his lips is a symphony. How can two simple beats of basic human language engulf me so completely? We stare at each other for a mini infinity. I'm terrified of speaking and breaking the spell that's fallen over us.

Sarah Nicolas

#10. One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lew Wallace