Cantata Quotes

#1. Be my sonata, my cantata, my love
sing me something sweet
but not too sweet
(or i may grow deaf to our harmony
as we decrescendo into silence)

Nenia Campbell

#2. The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

Honore De Balzac

#3. In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

Henri Lebesgue

#4. His arms held me like a vice, and I wondered if he would crush the life from me, and it occurred to me that I didn't care as long as I died in his arms ...

Tess Oliver

#5. Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

Pearl S. Buck

#6. I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

T. S. Eliot

#7. Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not.

Gideon Glick

#8. When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

Johnny Mercer

#9. An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.

Jill Ker Conway

#10. Kill Bill is one of my favorite movies. It has this gritty feeling to it, and it's got a little bit of everything - a little bit of western, a little bit of samurai, and a lot of this very cinematic violence that I personally think is very entertaining.

Tove Styrke

#11. There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

James Garner

#12. Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

Paula Abdul