Overture Quotes

#1. The overture began. God! Strings! Oboes! Timpani! Are you fucking kidding me? Why, when we know what human beings are capable of doing, do we not turn our collective heads in shame at the sight of rich housewives screaming at each other on television?

Meg Howrey

#2. Light takes darkness vanish and worlds reappear. Light opens each day with a blaring overture, then throws its wands to earth and casts diamonds on lakes and oceans. Each night, lights tricks make the stars seem alive.

Bruce Watson

#3. A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.

Joseph Addison

#4. My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Billy Connolly

#5. An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

#6. Shard by shard we are released from the tyranny of so-called time. A curtain of purple wisteria partially conceals the entrance to a familiar garden ... In a wink, a lifetime, we pass through the infinite movements of a silent overture.

Patti Smith

#7. I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#8. The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

Kelli O'Hara

#9. Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might be an overture for sarcasm

Eraldo Banovac

#10. My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

Hildegard Knef

#11. I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.

Tony Danza

#12. Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

Laini Taylor

#13. There were tightly wound strings shivering in the air as the overture began in full.

E.K. Johnston

#14. Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

Rabih Alameddine

#15. The dust made Lily cough. She buried her face in the crook of her arm to muffle the noise. But behind all that wood, they probably could play the 1812 Overture with real cannons and nobody would hear them.

Ellie McDonald

#16. The tree made it's first move, the first overture of friendship. It allowed a leaf to fall.

Ruskin Bond

#17. I pinch myself every night when I hear the overture starting. I'm so overwhelmed by the whole process, and humbled and giddy all at the same time because I can't believe it's me that gets to sing these songs every night.

Tituss Burgess

#18. The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#19. But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent

Sarah Dessen

#20. When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

Haruki Murakami

#21. The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

Lola Kirke

#22. No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Sloane Crosley

#23. The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.

David Lloyd

#24. I'll be damned if I'm going to miss the overture and finale when I've payed good money for it... You can go, but I'm staying.

Edward Rutherfurd

#25. She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

John Cheever

#26. Sometimes walking away is best. I should know. It's my specialty.

Joanne Harris

#27. Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

Italo Calvino

#28. Well, everybody has a bodyguard in Brazil.

Bob Varsha

#29. Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Jacques Barzun

#30. Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Joseph Joubert

#31. Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

Andre Derain

#32. I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.

Keiichi Tsuchiya

#33. Even a scientist is a human being, and it is quite natural that he, like others, hates the things he cannot explain and thus falls victim to the common illusion that what we know today represents the highest summit of knowledge.

C. G. Jung

#34. I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.

Michael J. Fox

#35. Too many people, when listing all the perils to be found in the search for lost treasure or ancient wisdom, had forgotten to put at the top of the list "the man who arrived just before you".

Terry Pratchett

#36. I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

Warren Spector

#37. Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#38. I am safe. For one night at least. Safe, moored to this man.

Linda Gillard

#39. I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.

Eddie Izzard