Cumparsita Quotes & Sayings

What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking. — Colley Cibber

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking. — Orson Welles

Bullshit, as you Americans say.
He's Irish.
The Irish say bullshit too. — Kevin Hearne

Well, there's another set forward, you see. Up to now you couldn't stand all this dance and jazz music. It was too superficial and frivolous for you. Now you have seen that there's no need to take it seriously and that it can all the same be very agreeable and delightful. And by the way, the whole orchestra would be nothing without Pablo. He conducts it and puts fire into it. — Hermann Hesse

Living in fear is what every hater, negative person, and the devil wants. Live a righteous life with God and nothing but positivity. You must forgive anyone who has done you dirty, and move on. Your personal life, career, and love life will be that much more amazing after. Life is too short to live it being empty inside, sad, angry, and defensive just to hide your pain. Let it all go and let love and happiness in. Put yourself out there all the way and don't be fearful of losing love. If you don't live life by fully enjoying it and opening your heart, your just not living. — Behdad Sami

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it. — Will Rogers

Music - good music, great music - had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses' ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something. — Julian Barnes

If words come from the heart, they will enter the heart. If they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears. — Rumi

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand. — Arnold Ross

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world. — Imtiaz Ali

Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred? — Roland Barthes

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. — George Canning