Librettist Quotes & Sayings

It was on the steamer carrying him through the Golden Gate that he happened to reach down into the hole in the lining of the right pocket of his overcoat and discover the envelope that his brother had solemnly handed to him almost a month before. It contained a single piece of paper, which Thomas had hastily stuffed into it that morning as they all were leaving the house together for the last time, by way or in lieu of expressing the feelings of love, fear, and hopefulness that his brother's escape inspired. It was the drawing of Harry Houdini, taking a calm cup of tea in the middle of the sky, that Thimas had made in his notebook during his abortive career as a librettist. Josef studied it, feeling as he sailed toward freedom as if he weighed nothing at all, as if every precious burden had been lifted from him. — Michael Chabon

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried. — James Marsters

There is no darkness like that of a confined space. It's darker than the inside of eyelids, and darker than the night. — Lauren DeStefano

You have seven writers in your basement?"
Donald nods, signing, "They like it here. There's a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer ... They don't usually make much trouble. — Susan Wiggs

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. — Robertson Davies

I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight. — Robert B. Parker

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom. — E.F. Schumacher

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up. — Candace Kita

She devoutly put away in her drawers her beautiful dress, down to the satin shoes whose soles were yellowed with the slippery wax of the dancing floor. Her heart was like these. In its friction against wealth something had come over it that could not be effaced. — Gustave Flaubert

It's not like you're becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You'll never not be a father now.'
'It feels great, Rob' he said. 'Just great. — Tim Relf

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio. — Joseph Kosinski

Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West

I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that. — Busta Rhymes

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist. — Jacques Ibert