Rossini On Wagner Quotes

#1. Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

John Keats

#2. Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.

Gioachino Rossini

#3. Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Lucretia Mott

#4. One reason writers write is out of revenge.

Cynthia Ozick

#5. You know, Professor, this stray kitten and you have one very important thing in common.'
'I can't imagine,' responded the professor coolly.
'Your life is the most important thing in the world to you,' said His Holiness. 'Same for this kitten.

David Michie

#6. Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Gioachino Rossini

#7. One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Gioachino Rossini

#8. That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger, and you can't see them in the supermarket or wherever. It's a terrible, terrible moment ... the most unimaginable horror.

James Nesbitt

#9. This is interesting. Researchers have found that people who drive drunk are more dangerous on the road than drivers who are high on marijuana. Don't get too excited. It's mostly because the drivers using marijuana are just sitting in the Taco Bell drive-through.

Jimmy Fallon

#10. I estimated the ambient humidity at roughly a thousand percent, but tipped a little of my sweetened coffee into the saucer and blew on it nonetheless.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. Wagner thought Rossini unserious; Rossini thought Wagner 'lacked sun'. Wagner also became the butt of a phrase Rossini had used down the years to describe musicians about whom he had certain reservations - "He has some beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour!

Richard Osborne

#12. Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

Dan Ariely

#13. Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

Alison Jackson

#14. Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

Gioachino Rossini

#15. One of the great consolations ... is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#16. I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

Moby

#17. He felt all of the tension rush out of him. Without it, he could hardly stand up.

Rainbow Rowell

#18. And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.

Dante Alighieri