The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Lee: Yes. The final supreme idiocy. Coming here to hide. The deserter hiding out in the middle of a battlefield.
With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.
In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science, and all that is beautiful in Art.
The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.
Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
Tu as les jambes longues mais la mémoire courte !
I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.
If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
