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Librettist Inspirational Quotes (7322)

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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson Welles
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Every second is of infinite value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean and whether this could be the ancestor song. So, I started writing English lyrics to sort of the same melody.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, Go! The Grave says, Come!
Arthur Guiterman
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
Jean Cocteau
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Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
James M. Barrie
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
J. B. Priestley
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It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
E. M. Forster
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A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.
Anthony Burgess
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Scheme not to make what's Another's your own Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.
Arthur Guiterman
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
Bertolt Brecht
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Lord Byron
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By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.
Joseph Addison
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Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.
Paul Engle
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People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
Julian Fellowes
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I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way it's speculative.
Howard Barker
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I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!
P. G. Wodehouse
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron
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