Quotable Quotes

"The outcome of everything is the way it happened and the way it happened is the story of your life."
— Virgil Thompson in "Virgil Thompson at 90"

"What would you have me do?
Search out some powerful patronage, and be
Like crawling ivy clinging to a tree?
No thank you. Dedicate, like some others,
Verses to plutocrats, while caution smothers
Whatever might offend my lord and master?
No thank you ... Labouring to write a line of such good breeding
Its only fault is that it's not worth reading?
To ingratiate myself, abject with fear,
And fawn and flatter to avoid a sneer?
No thank you, no thank you, and again, no thank you."
— Cyrano de Bergerac, Act II, Edmond Rostand

"I've lost more than I won — but you win a lot!"
— a woman overheard at a casino

"And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil..."
— Luke, 11; 1-4
"The only temptation for man is to be abandoned to his own resources in the presence of evil. His nothingness is then proved experimentally."
— Concerning the Our Father, Simone Weil