Top 25 Quotes About Gilbert And Sullivan
#1. On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.
Robert M. Hutchins
#2. But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.
Dinah Sheridan
#4. The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
Stephen Sondheim
#5. The pale leaf falls in pallor, but the green leaf turns to gold; We that have found it good to be young shall find it good to be old;
G.K. Chesterton
#6. Forgive me...Elliot. Perhaps I could have saved you...but I don't want to deny the story in which you existed. ...I...will not allow the past to be altered...!
-Leo
Jun Mochizuki
#7. Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
Fernando Pessoa
#8. Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.
Nikita Khrushchev
#9. It's easy to choose doing what you love when there are people out there supporting you.
Hoodie Allen
#10. Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.
Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.
#11. I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan's Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade.
Robert Winston
#12. It's not one of Bruno's fastest wins ... but it's one of them.
Harry Carpenter
#13. The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
Karen DeCrow
#14. Is everything normal now?"
"Well he hasn't got religious mania, and he isn't running around in a circle
spouting Gilbert and Sullivan, so I suppose he's normal." (45)
Isaac Asimov
#15. As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."
W.S. Gilbert
#16. It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
Nigel Farage
#18. Above all, look for the loving, which is how all of this works. Without love, no matter what else we have, it will not work. And if we have love, no matter what else we do not have, it will work.
Roger Delano Hinkins
#19. For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
Dominick Dunne
#20. Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.
Jewel
#21. When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
Robert Kiyosaki
#22. Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
Roald Dahl
#23. To get from "protoplasmal primordial atomic globule" (as Gilbert and Sullivan put it) to sentient upright modern human has required you to mutate new traits over and over in a precisely timely manner for an exceedingly long while.
Bill Bryson
#24. So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested.
Alan De Jager
#25. New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.
Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.