Boito Opera Quotes & Sayings

Rene Descartes, in order to raise skeptical doubts about even our firmest certainties, imagined that we might he under the influence of an evil demon, and more modern philosophers have speculated about the possibility of our being brains in vats. — Victor Reppert

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. — Curtis Sittenfeld

I didn't go to parties or anything like that. — Miranda Lambert

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Just as I have my own role to play, so does time. And time does its job much more faithfully, much more accurately, than I ever do. Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old. The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality. — Haruki Murakami

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made made curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them. — Rachel Kushner

You are both rich my friends ... And your riches are the only riches worth having, the riches of content. — L. Frank Baum