Shubert Quotes & Sayings

The true significance, then, of absolute music is that it expresses human personality at its finest moments, adequately, beautifully and spiritually, by the medium of sound. And therefore our finest music is one of the supreme possessions of the world ; for there is nothing greater than great personality. — J. Alfred Johnstone

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face. — Stephen Fry

Formatting is no substitute for writing. — Leslie Lamport

The Shubert grandparents. No comfort there. He in uniform, she in a ball gown, displaying absurd self-satisfaction. They had got what they wanted, Sophia supposed, and had only contempt for those not so conniving or so lucky. — Alice Munro

A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings. — Walter Winchell

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. — Michael Porter

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises. — Mae West

All you had of a person was what they showed you. — Caroline Leavitt

All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real ... — Vijay Seshadri

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract. — Beatrice Lillie

Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus — J. P. McEvoy

It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's done something else to weaken the country. He's empowered a base that loathes American excellence. — Dennis Quaid

Lucille," Norma Jean whispered loud enough for me to hear from my foliage hideout. She leaned over her walker and adjusted her glasses. "Is that Willis Harvey up front by Elsa?"

"Well, pinch my pooch, I believe it is," Lucille said. "I barely recognize him with his clothes on. — Ann Charles

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. — Martin Scorsese

To leave him behind. You'll have to find a way to get — Cameo Renae

In Shubert Alley that night, I had unwittingly reached the threshold of an entire landscape of alleys that would lead to a world of theaters, each a house packed with strangers both generous and mean, shabby and grand. It was to be a life full of the transitory moments, double-edged with ecstasy and loss, that I had already come to think of as the theater. — Frank Rich

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi

People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery! — Carolina Herrera

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord. — Horatius Bonar