Libretto Quotes

#1. ...if we aren't learning something from a new experience, it's usually because we aren't paying attention. Or we're following the wrong libretto.

Tom Robbins

#2. A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.

Virgil Thomson

#3. The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

Gregory Peck

#4. Porgy is ... an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.

George Gershwin

#5. I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit.

Lisa Randall

#6. Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing ... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.

Pope Francis

#7. In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

Victor Hugo

#8. I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

Terry Teachout

#9. Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.

John Barrymore

#10. From one small spark a bushfire grows.
Sellers of misery are our foes.
Merging ruthlessly tongues of flame.
Point your finger at those to blame.

Paul Anthony

#11. And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

Frank Gehry

#12. If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#13. It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right.

Anonymous

#14. You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

Toby Young

#15. Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

C. A. Bartol

#16. ELet this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture indeed is self-authenticated;16 hence, it is not right to subject it to proof and reasoning.

John Calvin

#17. I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances.

Joanna Lumley

#18. I would love to come to Auckland. That's a place I've been quite a lot with my band so I'm very much looking forward to it.

Tom DeLonge

#19. I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.

Natalie Goldberg

#20. The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

Sterling W. Sill