Musicale Quotes & Sayings

People, by their very nature, don't want to help you. They want to help themselves. You need to find a way to help them help themselves. — Aaron Goldman

And you did all of this before I awakened?'
'Not all of us can afford to be layabouts ... You upper class types are all the same. Sleep until noon and then fritter your nights away.'
She narrowed her eyes. 'I do not fritter my nights away.'
'Really? And what do you do at night?'
'I go to social events. Parties or galas. Sometimes a musicale. Or a charity event,' she tacked on with satisfaction.
'Well, I must retract my frittering comment in that case.'
'It's not frittering. It's surviving. — Anne Mallory

I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager. — Charles Busch

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now
where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists. — Doris Lessing

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law — Seneca The Younger

It's your musicale." "And I'll sulk if I want to," she — Julia Quinn

The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite
certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to
recover. — Julia Quinn

Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a romantic thought when faced with the memory-or the threat-of a Smythe-Smith musicale. — Julia Quinn

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant. — Jonathan Haidt

It's a curse, really," Lady Danbury said. "I'm the only person I
know my age who has perfect hearing."
"Most would call that a blessing."
She snorted. "Not with that musicale looming over the horizon. — Julia Quinn

Christmas celebrations in the early colonies to the condemnations today of the commercial nature of the feast. — Anne Rice

I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history. — Gail Carriger