Recitative Quotes & Sayings

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative. — Lea Salonga

Be a companion with Christ, and he will draw near unto you and be your best friend. There is no better friend than Christ. — William R. Bradford

Hey, come back to me. — Alex Rosa

Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have lumber and sawdust. — O. Henry

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness. — Gautama Buddha

Prayer was and is both a spontaneous act and a recitative — Scot McKnight

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it. — Shakira

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night. — Miles Kington

We have employed every police and military unit at our dispo - " "NOT GOOD ENOUGH. — Marissa Meyer

Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation. — James Boswell

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio. — Naveen Jain

Writing is a cerebral journey where the writer molds experience into useful thought capsules and thoughtfully takes recitative inventory of their spiritual depot. The act of personal essay writing is a subtle search to track and discover how a contiguous chain of occurrences links the essayist's case history of rational and irrational behavior. Writing a person's life story fosters acceptance of their prior personal failures and serves to open a doorway to living modestly and harmoniously. — Kilroy J. Oldster

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes. — Len Wein

I'm very good at forgetting people. — Kristin Scott Thomas

There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader
it was quickly noted. There was no greater distinction between people. — Pascal Mercier

The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep. — J. K. Bharavi

An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex. — Diana Athill

So many things are difficult, said Miss Marple. It was a useful phrase which she used often. — Agatha Christie