„Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.“
— Charles Sprague Boston businessman and poet 1791 - 1875
Curiosity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„High society is a poor play, a bad, boring opera, made slightly better by its staging, costumes and scenery.“
Reflections
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— Vytautas Juozapaitis Lithuanian opera singer 1963
Christopher Hyde, "Mozart would have approved", Portland Press Herald (March, 2005) http://www.jennykellyproductions.com/prod_mozart_review.htm
„In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse“
— Ryōkan Japanese Buddhist monk 1758 - 1831
As translated in Haiku : Spring (1950) by Reginald Horace Blyth
Contesto: In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse;
The flowering branches are
of themselves, some short, some long.
— Guillaume Apollinaire French poet 1880 - 1918
De cette alliance nouvelle, car jusqu'ici les décors et les costumes, d'une part, la choréographie, d'autre part, n'avaient entre eux qu'un lien factice, il est résulté, dans Parade, une sorte de sur-réalisme.
Excelsior, May 11, 1917; translation from Michael Benedikt & George E. Wellwarth (eds.) Modern French Theatre (New York: Dutton, 1964) p. xvii.
The first usage of the word surrealism in any language.
— Francis Marion Crawford Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909) 1854 - 1909
The Novel: What It Is (1893)
— Georg Simmel German sociologist, philosopher, and critic 1858 - 1918
"Sociability" (1910) in On Individuality and Social Forms (1971), p. 134
— Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951
Origine: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.
— Joby Talbot British composer 1971
Joby Talbot: a composer's journey through Wonderland to the foothills of Everest https://bachtrack.com/interview-joby-talbot-contemporary-focus-2014 (15 October 2014)
— Raid Jahid Fahmi Iraqi politician 1950
Interview with Al Jazeera (25 May 2018)
„I'm playing a cat burglar. I've made it. This is the high point of my career. I'm really chuffed.“
— Sam Neill Irish-born New Zealand actor 1947
Entertainment Weekly; 23 July 1993, Referring to his role on The Simpsons
„The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.“
— George Eliot, libro Middlemarch
Origine: Middlemarch
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
Informing the interviewer that he wasn't interested in merely being a financial success and moving to the suburbs, in "No Cushy Post for this Pioneer Harvard Law Review Chief Plans to Work in Inner City", by Allison J Pugh in The Akron Beacon-Journal (19 April 1990)
1990s
— James Samuel Coleman American sociologist 1926 - 1995
The Adolescent Society (1961), p. 337. New York: Free Press.
„Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.“
— George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet, author 1806 - 1861
Book V.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
