Quotes About Billy Budd

#1. Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Karen DeCrow

#2. When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

Terence Stamp

#3. I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Douglas Adams

#4. Then two identical Cadillac Fleetwoods (special Secret Service cars flown in from the US) and the President sitting in one of them. Which one was kept secret. Or perhaps he was sitting in both, Harry thought. One for Jekyll and one for Hyde.

Jo Nesbo

#5. blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at what was approaching

Leo Tolstoy

#6. And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Herman Melville

#7. Tell me. I must know how to hunt Jelly Babies.

Rick Riordan

#8. Prosperity is a by-product of an effective management of whatever God provides.

Matthew Ashimolowo

#9. I think that 'Flesh and Bone' represents the dance world very authentically. There's always this aspect of drama put on top of it, and it's showcasing the problems of the dance world, but I've had experiences in reality that were written into the show.

Sarah Hay

#10. The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.

Katie Couric

#11. We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

Iman