Operatic Villains Quotes & Sayings

A book, he thinks at one point, rubbing his eyes, tired from so much focused reading. It's a world all on its own, too. He looks at the cover again. A satyr playing pan pipes, far more innocent-looking than when it got up to in the story. A world made of words, Seth thinks, where you live for a while.
"And then it's over," he says. — Patrick Ness

If you have a surprise idea, don't let it go! No matter if it's 4 AM, 6 AM or 12 AM, don't let it go! It might have been a great one! — B.A. Gabrielle

So where in the old economy, content was king, in the new economy, context is king. — Robert Kiyosaki

With aggressive come-ons, at least you knew where you stood. Holding hands, you got - hopeful. — Laura Florand

Is it better to be loved or feared? — Niccolo Machiavelli

Captain," said I, — Robert Louis Stevenson

I always think the villains in all of the Disney movies are almost operatic in scale. — Jonathan Freeman

My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way', ... That's one of the reasons I was so pleased that the boys could do the IAM test as well. — Nigel Mansell

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realized, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting point for an ideal that is other than itself. This is why music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret. — Oscar Wilde

Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. — Deborah Day

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more. — Ovid

It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The world will be hostile, it will be suspicious of your intent, it will misinterpret you, it will inject you with doubt, it will flatter you into self-sabotage. What the world is, more than anything? It's indifferent. — Maria Semple

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. — Alain De Botton

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron. — Ted Rall

Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise! — Deyth Banger