James Fenton Quotes
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.
James Fenton
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
Zayn Malik
One Direction
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert
If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
Laura Linney
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
Walter Gropius
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes
A marriage, she thought, had to have a reason for being.
Bel Kaufman
I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.
Jonas Armstrong
Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
Stevie Wonder
Pollution, defilement, squalor are words that never would have been created had man lived conformably to Nature. Birds, insects, bears die as cleanly and are disposed of as beautifully as flies. The woods are full of dead and dying trees, yet needed for their beauty to complete the beauty of the living.... How beautiful is all Death!
John Muir
A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard.
P. G. Wodehouse
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.
James Fenton
