Farinelli And The King Quotes

#1. But when society is the name for such hollow gentlemen and ladies ... and when its breeding is professed indifference to everything that can advance or can retard mankind, I think we must have lost ourselves in that same Desert of Sahara, and had better find the way out.

Charles Dickens

#2. Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Arthur Helps

#3. For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Sophocles

#4. If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

Beyonce Knowles

#5. Oh, darling, you can't go around with that tatty green canvas thing. You look like some sort of Mary Poppins person who's fallen on hard times.

Helen Fielding

#6. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#7. A couple of years ago, I was following players. Now, I'm trying to have guys follow me.

Tracy McGrady

#8. I have called her beautiful, because it was her moral beauty that at once attracted me. True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy.

Steve Maraboli

#10. Betting against the point spread is a relatively mechanical trip, but betting against another individual can be very complex, if you're serious about it - because you want to know, for starters, whether you're betting against a fool or a wizard, or maybe against somebody who's just playing the fool.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

Phil Klay

#12. So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.

Benjamin Harkarvy

#13. He will rattle your cage and then break your heart.

Jameson Currier

#14. In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which creates and the power which destroys; the power which is benign and the power which is malign. Odd that we have retained in our vocabulary the word for dangerous power, taboo, and have lost mana.

Madeleine L'Engle