Quotes About Don Giovanni

#1. My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

Danielle De Niese

#2. I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.

Branford Marsalis

#3. For what might happen if we lift
the codicils on belching?
If sex were permitted in the shopping malls? If people
were allowed to sing arias
from Don Giovanni, loudly and out of tune, waiting in line
at Department of Motor Vehicles?

Lucia Perillo

#4. Don Giovanni, you invited me to sup with you: I have come.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#5. There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

Gustave Flaubert

#6. Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

Matt Ridley

#7. Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear.

Janine Di Giovanni

#8. Just so you know I don't really feel like you kidnapped me - it's more like assisted running away by coincidence.

Cassandra Giovanni

#9. I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

Nikki Giovanni

#10. I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.

Nikki Giovanni

#11. Love is blind. Lust isn't!

Don Giovanni

#12. Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Nikki Giovanni

#13. Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Nikki Giovanni

#14. A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

Giovanni Ribisi

#15. I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

Nikki Giovanni

#16. If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

Nikki Giovanni

#17. No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist.

Janine Di Giovanni

#18. I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Nikki Giovanni

#19. Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

Nikki Giovanni

#20. I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart

Nikki Giovanni

#21. Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

Nikki Giovanni

#22. Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

Nikki Giovanni

#23. I'm wrong for you. I'm an irresponsible player. I don't know how to be in love. I don't want to hurt you anymore than I have to. But I can't lose you. Don't walk away from me

Cassandra Giovanni

#24. He really did demolish me. I don't know who that hellcat slut was that tore up grass and screwed her brains out. I don't know who I am anymore.
Pia Giovanni

Thea Harrison

#25. I feel I've lost every part of me ... there's nothing left but the parts I've given to you. I need you to hold those pieces together. Please don't forget who I was ... then ... then there really will be nothing left.

Cassandra Giovanni

#26. A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die

Nikki Giovanni

#27. I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Nikki Giovanni

#28. Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.

Janine Di Giovanni

#29. The closer we get - the more I let you in ... the more dangerous this gets. We're just pawns in this game, and I wasn't playing before. I was just a piece to move about the board, but I am playing now. Don't you get it? You're what everyone wants! But I'm not going to let them win.

Cassandra Giovanni

#30. I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

Nikki Giovanni

#31. I don't think that many people today, understand the nature of what an improv does for an actor in a specific setting. What an improv does for an actor is help him find the life; it's the life that an actor's after.

Giovanni Ribisi

#32. If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Nikki Giovanni

#33. Kissed mouth don't lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#34. [My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.

Nikki Giovanni

#35. It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.

Janine Di Giovanni