Dvorakova Opera Quotes & Sayings

The image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art
plastic, musical, poetic, balletic
serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions. — Susanne Katherina Langer

I am my own tapestry, then, made as I could for myself. Some holes in my fabric have been made by others, some torn by chance. Missing threads in the weave represent all those I have loved who died so long before me — Nancy E. Turner

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing. — Harold Prince

Digital makes things feel more real, like you could reach out and touch them. — Michael Mann

The voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. — H.G.Wells

Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an avalanche, as instances of general forces, as not yet fully human because utterly conditioned by their circumstances. Where Turgenev saw men, Marx saw classes of men; where Turgenev saw people, Marx saw the People. These two ways of looking at the world persist into our own time and profoundly affect, for better or for worse, the solutions we propose to our social problems. — Theodore Dalrymple

I wonder" he wrote, "if the day will ever come that the loveliest of hymns, Silent Night, will come into the minds of the people throughout the world to express the German heart. I belive it is the expression of the heart of many Germans ... [and]of most people throughout the world. That is the appalling tragedy of all that we witness today" Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King in his diary during WWII during German occupation of the Netherlands. — Mackenzie King

Go to the poets, they will speak to thee
More perfectly of purer creatures
— William Wordsworth

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag. — John Waters

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations. — Ernst Mayr

Typical Xochi, leaving out important, death-related details. — J.T. Bock

Courtney Durham was molested in a cake shop today. — Eric Bishop-Potter

Wuthering being a significant, provincial adjective descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. — Emily Bronte

Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses. — Woody Allen

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam