Signor Bruschino Quotes & Sayings

On the Overture of the Rossini opera "Il SIgnor Bruschino" - The sound of the second violins striking the backs of their bows against the metal candle holders shortly after the start of the overture was judged 'incomprehensible' by the Giornale. Rossini feared as much. 'Dio ti salvi l'anima' (God save your soul), he wrote on the manuscript at the end of the overture). — Richard Osborne

Only occasionally can you glimpse through the embrasures of an otherwise perfectly polite person to see the cannons aimed out, only in a certain glint of light do the eyeteeth become fangs. We are driven by desire and fear. Only in our solitary hungers do we find ourselves capable of the most magnificently unexpected sins. — Michael Paterniti

The past is the past. As long as it's not a mass-murderer past! You're with the person who you're with as they are now. — Ashley Greene

I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name. I have quite a few friends who are Native Americans. And even if I didn't have Native American friends, the name of the team is disrespectful. — Mike Carey

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active. — Abigail Adams

We don't have to fix anything. — Mitch Hedberg

Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived; and far from being incompatible with the requirements of everyday life, Zen confers on it its own full revealing value. — Robert Linssen

I do not give a sh*t, the toilet miss me now — Mohlalefi J Motsima

It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice. — Idina Menzel

I opened my eyes to the brightness of the sun. I groaned, feeling the migraine take over. — Sylvie Raven