Basso Quotes

#1. A basso sings, and a soprano answers him.
Then there is thunder in a clear blue sky,
And, from the earth, a sigh: This song is finished.

Kenneth Koch

#2. I didn't do anything," Scott protested. "Breaking and entering is nothing?" Detective Basso echoed. "Funny, the law disagrees.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#3. You killed my father," he snorted in a basso profundo rumble. "Prepare to die!" "Inigo Montoya? Is that you?

Kevin Hearne

#4. Changing the question 'free from what?' into 'free for what?'; this change that occurs when freedom has been achieved has accompanied me on my migrations like a basso continuo. This is what we are like, those of us who are nomads, who come out of the collapse of a settled way of life.

Vilem Flusser

#5. This constant basso on the horizon
is it the waterfall
or the cannon
("Poem")

Paul Dermee

#6. I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.

Gabriel Basso

#7. Dating' stressful. I'd have to dress up.

Danika Stone

#8. As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.

Tom Basso

#9. I love dressing Nicole Kidman ... And I like dressing regular people. You know why? They buy the clothes!

Dennis Basso

#10. I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

Gabriel Basso

#11. Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

Gabriel Basso

#12. I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

Gabriel Basso

#13. It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

Novalis

#14. I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

Gabriel Basso

#15. On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. Teenage girls with burst ovarian cysts nodded out on morphine. It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#16. What would angel lips taste like? Sunshine? Marshmallows? Or something altogether different? Maybe buttered-popcorn jelly beans.

Lisa M. Basso

#17. I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.

Gabriel Basso

#18. As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

Hari Kunzru

#19. If it's not fun, you're not doing it right.

Bob Basso

#20. You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'

Gabriel Basso

#21. I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.

Tom Basso

#22. No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

Nhat Hanh

#23. I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

Dennis Basso

#24. (Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding.

Hamilton Basso

#25. I just meant that dreams are sort of an opportunity. You can confront danger without actually being in jeopardy."
"Oh," I said. Opportunity was a good thing, a chance, a promise--the gift of drowning every night and never being dead.

Aryn Kyle

#26. In Buddhism there are words you can say ... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

Tina Turner

#27. The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.

Gabriel Basso

#28. Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness.

Mary Balogh

#29. Good Lord, you would lead angels down a sinful path and they would follow joyously.

Adrienne Basso

#30. As long as you learn something from a loss, it's not really a loss.

Tom Basso

#31. Wait - something's gumming up Bosch. (Computers aren't as powerful as most people think; running even a small and rather stupid intern can really bog down a server.)

Charles Stross

#32. I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

Gabriel Basso

#33. Every ruin gives you a clear message: Even your most durable things will turn into ruins!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

Gabriel Basso

#35. I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

Gabriel Basso

#36. When you're wearing a smile, it's easier to pass yourself off as happy.

Lisa M. Basso

#37. Knowledge of places is closely linked to knowledge of the self, to grasping one's position in the larger scheme of things, including one's own community, and to securing a confident sense of who one is a person.

Keith H. Basso

#38. I like presenting ambiguous situations. It seems to me a great part of our inner and outer lives are ambiguous, if we're honest about it. Maybe I'm a realist, in that respect.

Eric Basso

#39. Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, "Enough!" and standing up to fight.

Darren Hardy

#40. I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.

Gabriel Basso