Torroba Pieces Quotes

#1. I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

Delia Sherman

#2. The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

Gerry Mulligan

#3. Like millions of others, he mockingly calls himself, in evocative modern street slang, a diaosi, the term for a loser that literally translates as "male pubic hair".

Anonymous

#4. Girls, I think. Why do women refer to themselves as girls? It's so weird

Dawn O'Porter

#5. No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

Camille Paglia

#6. I need to kiss you," he says, and it's the smartest thing he's said all day. "Please." ... His lips are just out of reach. "I need to know if I can feel anything. I want to feel something.

Karina Halle

#7. You should never doubt yourself because you never, ever know what's around the corner.

Kellie Pickler

#8. There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

Kanye West

#9. I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

Roz Chast