Mere Quote by Robertson Davies Download Open image “A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.” — Robertson Davies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mere Opera World
We have to make sure what we're doing is true - true as in life and not as in opera. The only things we… — Charles Nelson Reilly Copy Share Image
As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer if it… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an… — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion… — Joyce DiDonato Copy Share Image
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
“Drama and comedy are the polite genres, founded on collectively agreed-upon ideas, perceptions and truths. But life, as subjectively experienced, is not like comedy… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice… — Junichiro Koizumi Copy Share Image
“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
