Overture Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. — Billy Connolly
• I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration. — Gwendolyn Brooks
• No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note. — Sloane Crosley
• The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night.… — Dorothy Parker
• She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world,… — John Cheever
• Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present. — Laini Taylor
• An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. — Dan Rather
• The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture. — David Lloyd

Who Wrote These Overture Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Overture Quotes as follows:

• 1 Overture Quote by Billy Connolly
• 1 Overture Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
• 1 Overture Quote by Sloane Crosley
• 1 Overture Quote by Dorothy Parker
• 1 Overture Quote by John Cheever
• 1 Overture Quote by Laini Taylor
• 1 Overture Quote by Dan Rather
• 1 Overture Quote by David Lloyd