Magic Flute Quotes

#1. It is easy to choose death, living is much harder, especially for those who are left to pick up the broken pieces.

Susan Bibeau

#2. My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.

Simon McBurney

#3. If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

Simon McBurney

#5. I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.

Geddy Lee

#6. My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.

Lena Dunham

#7. Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him.

Rachel Higginson

#8. I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

Shane Filan

#9. slow it is
a slow business

to grow a few words
to say love

Anselm Hollo

#10. I know I'm not funny. I mean, let's face it, I'm no Groucho Marx. But if you're a guy, and you're watching late night television, are you gonna start jacking off to Groucho? I don't think so!

Sarah Silverman

#11. Emily Blunt helped me study for a Spanish test, and I got an A+ on it!

Lilla Crawford

#12. Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. You never fail until you stop trying.

Albert Einstein

#14. Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel, and novels demand that the writer goes deeper, both emotionally and thematically.

Noah Hawley

#15. If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Ivan Klima

#16. There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

Thomas J. Sargent

#17. 'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

Simon McBurney

#18. [Forster] quotes approvingly from this discussion, from The Magic Flute [by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]
"Lord Buddha was your gospel true?"
"True and False."
"What was true in it?"
"Selflessness and Love."
"What false?"
"Flight from Life.

Zadie Smith

#19. It's so much easier having someone else to blame when things go where they shouldn't.

Colleen Hoover