W.S. Gilbert Quotes
I was seven when he hung himself, and I don't remember all that much, and anything I did remember, I've managed to forget.
You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen.
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world.
There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.
Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.
For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen.
See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy I dare say Of more prosperity than A.
And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?
Oh I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmate And the crew of the captain's gig.
When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.
You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.
And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens And his aunts!
If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.
Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely most politely Flatter and impress the lady Most politely most politely Humbly beg and humbly sue She may deign to look on you.
Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).
... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.
In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms.
It's the people who try to be clever who never are the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.
From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us.
You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.
A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
Every bit of joy in my heart, you know, every smile on my face is yours. It's awesome to be able to share that with somebody.