Librettist

Quotes & Thinkers in Librettist

103 thinkers

Sort:

Notable Thinkers

40+ of 103

"[On Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him."

274 quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin."

103 quotes

🇩🇪Friedrich Hölderlin

Philosophy

Idealism

1770–1843

"Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das Lebendigste."

"What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return."

"Sing louder aroundTo the bells' cheerful sound,While our sports shall be seenOn the ecchoing green."

"His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before."

"La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection"

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

"A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody."

"Rank.Certainly. However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible."

"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."

"Somerset Maugham refers more than once to the pleasure of the Malayan morning - papaya and eggs and bacon and strong British tea taken while the air is cool and the sun awaits its sudden thrust into the green land...."

"Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise."

"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."

"If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me."

"This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in 10,000 pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over 14,000 dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him."

":5. But never let the horns and woodwind out of your sight: if you can hear them at all they are still too strong."

"An academic blog about writing a dissertation on Coetzee"

"Brecht's works in English: A bibliography"

"I OWE Christianity a debt, and so, I believe, does the world we have lived in for the last 2000 years."

2 quotes

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Literature

1751–1816

"No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman."

"I would like a bat with the words WHAT A ROTTEN WICKET-KEEPER stamped in large letters on the back of it."

"I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies’ hands – after all, one must start somewhere."

"The greatest liberty is born of the greatest rigor."

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing."

"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

"Fantasy is a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so the most potent."

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

"The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?"

"Without question, Steve is the best Broadway lyricist, past or present."

"We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule."

"Alchemy and magic are about how mundane, benign, and abundant materials can have an effect that is greater than the sum of their parts. To me, creativity is alchemy."

"Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life."

"My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God."

34 quotes

Also explore

🏺 Ancient →🏛️ Classical →⚔️ Medieval →🎨 Renaissance →