Sir Thomas Beecham Quotes & Sayings

Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to - I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that. — George W. Bush

Try everything once. Except incest and folk dancing.' Sir Thomas Beecham — Richard Branson

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now facing a kind of personal dilemma. She can't decide whether to drop the name Clinton from her name, or drop the name Rodham. They can't figure out which one is more embarrassing. — Jay Leno

If you regard your last day not as a punishment but as a law of nature, the breast from which you have banished the dread of death no fear will dare to enter. — Seneca.

A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me." — Thomas Beecham

And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'
it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is. — Dodie Smith

Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I don't think that's the case. People who've been through really horrible life-or-death situations say that nobody behaves the way they would have expected. But that said, there are predictors. — Amanda Ripley

It is practically a matter of life or death for a True Cock Worshiper to taste pre-cum. — Lordess Demonica

It pleased me to think of his being happy.
It really pleased me to think that I might have influenced another being's emotions. — A.M. Jenkins

I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do. — Emily Procter