Berlioz Opera Quotes & Sayings

Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be. — Javier Marias

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. — Charlotte Bronte

Good music is very close to primitive language. — Denis Diderot

They were both deciding not to be what others wanted them to be but to brand themselves for the world to see. To do their own packaging, so to speak, and to direct their powers to their specific target audiences. — Sarah Schulman

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do. — David Morse

The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful. — Charles Spurgeon

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. — Linus Torvalds

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris. — Amelie Nothomb

There was a rightness to things that surpassed understanding, but she knew beyond all doubt that in each and every circumstance her feet had been guided along this path and to this place. A favourite saying in China - which she had heard on occasion from her own grandmother - was that the threads of life are easy to weave, but difficult to untangle. — Stephen R. Lawhead

We often suffer from akrasia, weakness of will. So we become good people the way we become good tennis players or violinists, through practice until the behaviour we aspire to becomes natural and instinctive. Being moral means acquiring the habits of the heart we call virtue. — Jonathan Sacks

When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.' — Ansel Elgort

Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence on men and male authority, while at the same legitimating the political and social authority of fathers and sons in the institutions of society. — Carol P. Christ

The lessons learned hardest were the lessons learned best. — Linda Howard