Vespri From The Opera Quotes & Sayings

Star-watching: at night the stars of Alastor Cluster blaze in profusion. The atmosphere refracts their light; the sky quivers with beams, glitters, and errant flashes. The Trills go out into their gardens with jugs of wine; they name the stars and discusses localities. For the Trills, for almost anyone of Alastor, the night sky was no abstract empyrean, but rather a view across prodigious distances to known places: a vast luminous map. — Jack Vance

Should we then not expect lions to refrain from killing antelopes, 'for the good of the mammals'? — Richard Dawkins

We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before. — John Richard Reid

And Ricardo has no interest in the war coming to a rapid end. He is making a fortune out of it. So long as it continues and Portuguese neutrality is maintained, he will become one of the richest men in Europe. — Michael Bloch

The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture. — Wright Morris

Start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

His expression practically hung out a shingle announcing the topic was off-limits. — Myra McEntire

Enlighten your life with history. — Elaine C. Shigley

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special. — Mo Rocca

They guillotined Charlotte Corday and they said Marat is dead. No, Marat is not dead. Put him in the Pantheon or throw him in the sewer; it doesn't matter-he's back the next day. He's reborn in the man who has no job, the woman who has no bread, in the girl who has to sell her body, in the child who hasn't learned to read; he's reborn in the unheated tenement, in the wretched mattress without blankets, in the unemployed, in the proletariat, in the brothel, in the jailhouse, in your laws that show no pity, in your schools that give no future, and he appears in all that is ignorance and he recreates himself from all that is darkness. Oh, beware human society: you cannot kill Marat until you have killed the misery of poverty! — Victor Hugo

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. — Dorothy Thompson

Every day of life is an adventure. Don't fear to dare and never forget to enjoy it. — Debasish Mridha