The Ring Cycle Quotes

#1. So, he eagerly drove from Basel to Bayreuth before the festival began to watch the last rehearsals of The Ring Cycle. As he watched, it hit him like Odin's bowel movement: the opera was shit.

Dylan Callens

#2. It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.

John Taylor Gatto

#3. Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. It came to him that life moved in circles like the ripples radiating from a stone cast into a pool ... Now he was on the outer ring of the last ripple, journeying to fulfill the cycle. Or perhaps the cycle was already complete and he was about to cast another stone.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#5. Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

Bruce Springsteen

#6. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

Philip Pullman

#7. Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.

Katharine Graham

#8. Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson