Viola Quotes

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

— Peter Greenaway

I love Viola Davis.

— Marcia Clark

Carmen viola simmons!!!! Now 7 months

— Anonymous

“If you’re not careful, the viola can make the most awful screech,”

— Gayle Forman

Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett.

— Rutina Wesley

“He's a woman. He's a grown woman He's a old woman.”

— Patrick Ness

I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.

— Patrick Ness

She blooms with every breath she takes… My sweet Carmen viola

— Anonymous

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

— Victor Borge

“Red wine is different from white. Removing the grape skin does all the difference.”

— Viola Soul Calibur

Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I…

— Denzel Washington

“The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin…

— Nicholas Christopher

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's…

— Blythe Danner

“You said war should never be personal, but that’s all it’s ever been for me.”

— Patrick Ness

“And I feel her against me - And I think Viola - I think VIOLA! - I think VIOLA!!!! ”

— Patrick Ness

I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.

— Brian Tyree Henry

“There's always a choice," Viola says by my side. "Oh, people like to say that," the Mayor says. "It makes them feel…

— Patrick Ness

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like…

— Gavin Bryars

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and…

— Adam Johnson

“And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear…

— Patrick Ness

Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but…

— Nish Kumar

Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path…

— Laura Harrier

Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward,"…

— Patrick Ness

I liked 'The Help,' and I love Viola Davis. But I didn't think that film was a great film; I thought that…

— Robert Osborne

But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield…

— William Shakespeare

When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh…

— Viola Davis

[Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just…

— Viola Davis

The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did…

— Anonymous

I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried…

— Constance Backhouse

“Quinn lifted Lady Meade's hand and pressed a very correct kiss on her bony knuckles. Then he bent and brushed his lips…

— Mia Marlowe

“But what he's forgetting," she says. "What he's forgotting is that me and Todd, we ran halfway across this planet together, by…

— Patrick Ness

And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,”…

— Patrick Ness

There are so many incredible women on TV right now. Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Ellen Pompeo. These are really incredible female leads…

— Priyanka Chopra

I think, especially with this show [How to Get Away with Murder], we have Viola Davis and Pete Nowalk as the showrunner.

— Karla Souza

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

— Kris Allen

Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.

— Francis Thompson

“Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the…

— Karen Mueller Coombs

“My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.”

— Karen Mueller Coombs

“Viola had a smile that could make the heavens open. She also had a frown of such scorn, it could send a…

— Laura Lee Guhrke

My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why…

— Erykah Badu