Famous quotes containing the words act 1, opera and/or act:
“Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide,
In thy most need to go by thy side.”
—Anonymous. Knowledge, in Everyman, act 1, l. 522 (c. 1509-1519)
“Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?”
—Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Lecours (Fritz Feld)
“Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)