Vienos Opera Quotes & Sayings

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. — Tommy Bolt

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity. — Andrew O'Hagan

Being a martyr is highly overrated. — Patricia Briggs

For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not many such books. All the rest is either topical trash or what some call the Literature of Ideas, which very often is topical trash coming in huge blocks of plaster that are carefully transmitted from age to age until somebody comes along with a hammer and takes a good crack at Balzac, at Gorki, at Mann. — Vladimir Nabokov

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up. — Curtis Jackson

She thinks she knows who I am because she thinks who I am is who she tells me I am. — Melina Marchetta

Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things. — John Lancaster Spalding

This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him. — Saint John Chrysostom

If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation. — Minot Judson Savage

We live in a world where money is necessary. You can't just go out and roam the forest and the cities, at least in America. — Frederick Lenz

Lia: "You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city brutes."
Zane: "I'm afraid," he said gently, "that you will burn down my heart. — Shana Abe