The Floating Opera Quotes & Sayings

And the Bible isn't a fairy tale? — Pittacus Lore

Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life. — Shannon L. Alder

You think it's because of the girl. Grant probably thinks it's because of the girl too. That's because you're both idiots. — Larry Correia

People who are normal (i.e., sane, sensible) don't try to open lines of communication with total strangers by writing them a series of disjointed, weird, cryptic messages. — Jon Ronson

When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue. — Olivia Williams

'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time. — Pamela Sargent

POPPY (on her biological father): Though I might share his last name and chin, I'm all Earlham. — Bijou Hunter

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. — Edward Coke

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. — Sherman Alexie

Having poured my drink, I may not live to taste it, or that it may pass a live man's tongue to burn a dead man's belly; that having slumbered, I may never wake, or having waked, may never living sleep. Having heard tick, will I hear tock? Having served, will I volley? Having sugared will I cream? Having eithered, will I or? Itching, will I scratch? Hemming, will I haw? — John Barth

The smell of the carpet in a hotel room is the same everywhere. — Linda Ronstadt

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night. — Charles Hart

Oh, Mr. Trout," nice Milo went on, there in Trout's suite, "teach us to sing and dance and laugh and cry. We've tried to survive so long on money and sex and envy and real estate and football and basketball and automobiles and television and alcohol - on sawdust and broken glass! — Anonymous