Escallonia Rubra Quotes & Sayings

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece. — Susanna Phillips

If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition. — Jim Crace

The tension in here is thicker than one of Ronald McDonald's shakes. — Alan Orloff

People have already dirtied my name too much. — Brigitte Bardot

It was human nature. You didn't give everything away; if you did, you would have nothing left.
There were those who took the view that there was a liberation in the act of confession, but mostly they tended to be the ones who were listening, and not the ones confessing. The only full confessions occur on deathbeds; all others are partial, modified. — John Connolly

As mysterious as the part of himself that was chosen and loved by her, the part of himself that was there only when they were together. — Dan Chaon

Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace. — Frances Beinecke

Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence. — D.T. Suzuki

Tommy, I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone before. If you repeat it, I'll deny I said it. Five years ago I saw a white owl with a seventy-foot wingspan swoop out of the sky and pluck a demon off a hillside and take off into the sky."
"I heard that cops get the best drugs," Tommy said. — Christopher Moore

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word. — Patrick Stump

The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility. — Chandrashekar