Romanza Quotes & Sayings

All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they. — Walt Whitman

Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves — William Cohen

When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated — Sunday Adelaja

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport. — Michael Keaton

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have. — Chris Moneymaker

Gas grills are a no-no. Gas is a petroleum product. Rather than a smokey flavor, it will add a a petroleum-based weird taste into your meat. However, if you already have a gas grill, you can bring in some smoke flavor by tightly rolling wood chips in tin foil really tight and placing them on the top of your burners. — Johnny Trigg

The street was a living, breathing dragon of humanity, inching forward, wheezing dirt, honking horns; people yelling for help, babies crying, and the smell of sweat heavy in the air. — Kristin Hannah

I'd rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul. — Sabaa Tahir

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do. — Ed Harris

Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of an individual's life. — Milan Kundera

Lincoln
they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart. — Barack Obama

The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now
not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most of the time I go around feeling like an old man on roller skates. — Kathleen Hale

The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to themselves. A litany of personal humiliation, outrage, and anger turned sicklelike back to themselves as humor. They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness. All but Empire State, who stood, broom in hand and drop-lipped, with the expression of a very intelligent ten-year-old. — Toni Morrison

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity. — Camille Paglia