Eric Taylor Quotes

Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?

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• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Thought
  • Innocent

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Wanted
  • Everyone
  • Opera

• The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

  

  Weegee
  • Beautiful
  • Society
  • Photograph

• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • War
  • Destruction
  • Murder

• It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • City
  • Possess

• In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Power
  • Insecurity
  • Murder

• I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.

  

  Haj Amin al-Husseini
  • War
  • Brother
  • Murder

• Attractions are proportional to destinies.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Destinies
  • Attractions

• One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Hero
  • Murder
  • Millions

• What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • May
  • War
  • Gold

• If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Death
  • Justice
  • Murder

• Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

  

  Socrates
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Murder

• The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most vile murder does not, in my view, release the state from constitutional restraint on the destruction of human dignity.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Humanity
  • Dignity
  • Killing

• Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.

  

  William Mapother
  • Actors
  • Method
  • Suggesting

• To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Murder
  • Rejoice
  • Conquest

• [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Shame
  • Murder
  • Torture

• Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Murder
  • Sight

• We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • War
  • Justice
  • Mad

• The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Murder
  • Error

• When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do in every situation because it's a very, very fast paced business. You do ninety pages a day on a Soap Opera. It's insane. It's such a small world, the soaps. It's all contained in one little studio.

  

  David Hudgins
  • Business
  • Character
  • Situation

• Preparing a lieder recital is quite different to me than preparing an operatic role. In an opera you are one of many striving to tell a story.

  

  Susanna Phillips
  • Story
  • Opera
  • Preparing

• Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?

  

  Eric Taylor
  • Murder
  • Opera
  • Suggesting