"A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me.""

-- Thomas Beecham

#Stars Quotes #Errors Quotes #Half Quotes

“I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.”
“No one sees themself as the villain in their story.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Wisconsin's a special place.”
“To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment”
“Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.”
“Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver”

Source : Robert Wright (1994). “The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life”, Pantheon
“All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.”
“To love is to will the good of the other.”

Source : "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, II-II, q. 26, art. 6, 1265 - 1274.

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