Van Buren State

Famous quotes containing the words van, buren and/or state:

““Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you—but my friends never leave me.””
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.”
—Abigail Van Buren (b. 1918)

“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)