Barbiere Quotes & Sayings

The terms that Sforza Cesarini offered Rossini, 400 Roman Scudi, were not ungenerous, though it must have been galling for Rossini to see the Figaro, Luigi Zamboni, getting almost twice as much, and the Almaviva, Manuel Garcia, being offered three times the amount. Of the first-night cast, only the 'altro buffo', Bartolomeo Botticelli, who played Bartolo, and the 'seconda donna', Elisabetta Lowselet, who played Berta, were paid less than the composer. — Richard Osborne

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. — Ernest Hemingway,

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act! — Craig MacDonald

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. — A.J. Liebling

Epidermal Macabre
Indelicate is he who loathes
The aspect of his fleshy clothes,-
The flying fabric stitched on bone,
The vesture of the skeleton,
The garment neither fur nor hair,
The cloak of evil and despair,
The veil long violated by
Caresses of the hand and eye.
Yet such is my unseemliness:
I hate my epidermal dress,
The savage blood's obscenity,
The rags of my anatomy,
And willingly would I dispense
With false accouterments of sense,
To sleep immodestly, a most
Incarnadine and carnal ghost. — Theodore Roethke

In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts, and even the clouds had names. Scissors could walk, telephones and teapots were first cousins, eyes and eyeglasses were brothers. The face of the clock was a human face, each pea in your bowl had a different personality, and the grille on the front of your parents' car was a grinning mouth with many teeth. Pens were airships. Coins were flying saucers. The branches of trees were arms. Stones could think, and God was everywhere. — Paul Auster

What is up with this Ashley Purdy day tomorrow,I see? Do I need to dress up as myself?! — Ashley Purdy

(Alexander Pope: "A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.") — Paul Kalanithi

That feeling you're having right now Ro? Stop fighting it. That'll be a good way to thank Day." God — A.E. Via

You found anything?" Nick said.
"I found a twig. — Jennifer Rush