Damrosch Opera Quotes & Sayings

Isn't joy worth the effort of trust? — Ann Voskamp

You have my heart, Jest. I don't know if you deserve it or not. I can't tell if you're a hero or a villain, but it doesn't seem to matter. Either way, my heart is yours. — Marissa Meyer

It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are. — Hailee Steinfeld

To Konstantin the peasant was simply the chief partner in their common labor, and in spite of all the respect and the love, almost like that of kinship, he had for the peasant - sucked in probably, as he said himself, with the milk of his peasant nurse - still as a fellow-worker with him, while sometimes enthusiastic over the vigor, gentleness, and justice of these men, he was very often, when their common labors called for other qualities, exasperated with the peasant for his carelessness, lack of method, drunkenness, and lying. — Leo Tolstoy

I don't know any real billionaires. — William Kent Krueger

I have a question." Stark looked to me. "Can you kick Chuck Norris's ass?"
Luke Stark smiled, white and lazy.
My heart thumped.
"I strive to be Chuck Norris," he replied. — Kristen Ashley

There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking. — Lilly Pulitzer

They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors. They're junk food. Fatty, but ultimately, terribly unsatisfying. — Kami Garcia

Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees — Benny Bellamacina

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The Royal University will get along fine without me." "And the Malcontents won't?" "If I'm away too long, they tend cause trouble. Set fires. That sort of thing." Cleasby grinned. "Sorry, sir, but I think they need me more. — Larry Correia

My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game. — Michael Irvin

If I don't believe in your god, it means he was incapable to manipulate me. — M.F. Moonzajer

The keys to liberation are universal and essentially simple: disengage from all the stories you've been telling yourself about life and who you are or should be as you negotiate your way through, and all at once you know yourself as divine, all-powerful, unstoppable and magnificent, as any divine, all-powerful, unstoppable being would. — John C. Parkin

...thanks for good deeds do not amount to much except to prove one's politeness. — L. Frank Baum