Obbligato Quotes

#1. If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

Hal Borland

#2. I wish to descend in the social scale.
High society is low society.
I am a social climber
climbing downward
And the descent is difficult.
(- Junkman's Obbligato)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#3. Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Jeanne Moreau

#4. When I talked with God about the stuff I faced, first on the list was the face I stuffed.

Scott Davis

#5. The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

John Fowles

#6. When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help.

Deepak Chopra

#7. I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

Anthony Horowitz

#8. The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

John Buchan

#9. Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.

Heenashree Khandelwal

#10. I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone like Legolas, who's this super-cool kind of otherworldly elf. It's, like, I'm lucky, man, so why would I not appreciate that?

Orlando Bloom

#11. Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

Louis MacNeice

#12. The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

Eugene Habecker

#13. Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

Woodrow Wilson