Gilbert And Sullivan Operetta Quotes

#1. As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

W.S. Gilbert

#2. Have you never watched a death, reader? In slow cases like blood loss it is not so much a moment as a stretch of ambiguity - one breath leaves and you wait uncertain for the next: was that the last? One more? Two more? A

Ada Palmer

#3. It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

Herbie Hancock

#4. Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

Oscar Wilde

#5. When economists get it right, the world gets better.

Dani Rodrik

#6. The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

Richard North Patterson

#7. I am really excited about Battle of the Stars, the line-up looks fantastic. I've no doubt that despite their fame my hand holding will still be in high demand as they take on the judges often harsh words. Lets just hope I'm not having to mop up too many tears!

Kate Thornton

#8. When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#9. It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

Drew Brees