Puccini's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for me - have been with the Romantic composers' repertoire: it's Wagner, it's Strauss, Verdi, Puccini. That era gets me every time.

Rufus Wainwright

#3. Art is a kind of illness.

Giacomo Puccini

#4. I know dead. I've been there, done that and got the freakin' T-shirt.

P.C. Cast

#5. I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

Berkeley Breathed

#6. 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

#7. Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#8. Theology is the logic of the Devil.

Jose Bergamin

#9. 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

#10. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat.

Sun Tzu

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

Giacomo Puccini

#12. Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have us think.

William Berger

#13. She's sweet on Wagner.
I think she'd die for Beethoven.
she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune,
and Verdi's always creeping from her room.

Electric Light Orchestra

#14. The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.

Sathya Sai Baba

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

Giacomo Puccini

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

Giacomo Puccini

#17. I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.

Rivers Cuomo

#18. Wagner is the Puccini of music.

J.B. Morton

#19. Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.

Elvis Costello

#20. Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

Todd Akin

#21. A memoir emerges from facts and dreams, and tells the story we have almost forgotten.

by Mary Stobie

Mary Stobie

#22. At nineteen, I certainly didn't know the answer, although I already knew more about death than most of the other pimple-ridden pudding heads in my sophomore class at the University of Miami.

Jeff Lindsay

#23. As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know?

Annie Lennox

#24. I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.

John Legend

#25. evaluate ur environ before u settle

Ikechukwu Joseph

#26. I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

Patti Smith

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

Giacomo Puccini

#28. 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

#29. After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

Maajid Nawaz

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

Giacomo Puccini

#31. I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

Eli Roth