Plantamura Quotes & Sayings

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. — Andrew Dickson White

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes! — Mackenzie Crook

Denying rumors gave them more power. — E.C. Myers

Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility of teaching a course together looking at ways in which various literary works (plays, stories, novels) had been treated as operas, and how different themes emerged in the opera and in its original. One of the pairings we planned to use was Mann's great novella and Britten's opera. Unfortunately, the course was never taught, but the idea remained with me. — Philip Kitcher

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead. — Cyndi Lauper

Was a broad but shallow education superior to one that was narrow but deep? — Christopher Paolini

God, people like that shouldn't be allowed to live. — John Green

Do or do not, there is not try. — Yoda