Overtures Quotes

#1. You have horrible taste in sensible footwear. Prefer high-pressure sexual advances to gentlemanly overtures. Can order a poor man into bankruptcy. Have questionable judgment when it comes to choosing travel companions." I

Alessandra Torre

#2. Unfortunately, Susan was not the only one who noticed Ricky's eyes on her; Patty was growing increasingly frustrated by his failure to respond to her overtures, or the reason

Brianne E. Pryor

#3. So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

Eduard Hanslick

#4. How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. These overtures of peace, translated into the servile and flattering language of Asia, were transmitted to the camp of the Great King; who resolved to signify, by an ambassador, the terms which he was inclined to grant to the suppliant Romans.

Edward Gibbon

#6. Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

Sean Hannity

#7. Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.

Richard J. Foster

#8. Why resist the overtures of mercy? Why say, "Let me alone," until God shall be compelled to give you your desire, since you will have it so?

Ellen G. White

#9. I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

S.J Perelman

#10. Overtures from a cold-blooded consideration of advantages to an emotional rejection based on their own bigotry. And if I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins. *

David Weber

#11. The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en mass, or for making overtures towards more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

Brooks Atkinson

#12. Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

Robert Gottlieb

#13. It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.

George Washington

#14. June and July?
These are the months
we call Boiling Water.

Anne Sexton

#15. Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Marcel Duchamp

#16. The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.

Clement Of Alexandria

#17. I thought depression just meant that you're sad." "Well, in lay terms it does, but the fact is that long-term sadness is now known as clinical depression and it is directly caused by neurohormonal imbalance or the inability of specific receptors in the brain to function correctly.

Craig Hurren

#18. History's lesson is that bullies ultimately defeat themselves.

Howard Jacobson

#19. His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.

Fannie Flagg

#20. In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

Joe Bob Briggs