Narborough Quotes

#1. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs." "Narborough wasn't perfect," cried the old lady.

Oscar Wilde

#2. The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

Brian Ferneyhough

#3. The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told.

Charles Ludlam

#4. To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

Carroll Quigley

#5. Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.

Jordan Stratford

#6. No one should ever feel sorry for me. I've been treated very well for the most part.

Kevin Spacey

#7. We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. And the Chairman didn't make his bones laying down for punks ...

Dennis Miller

#8. You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Kenny G

#9. Sleeping in a bed
it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

Rose Macaulay

#10. I was always interested in law at school; it was a great outlet to argue but not make anyone angry!

Sasha Jackson

#11. I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

Voltaire

#12. But her words haunted me for much of my life and played a major part in inhibiting and injecting with guilt what should have been a free and joyous expression of sexuality.

Oliver Sacks

#13. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk