Famous quotes containing the words you think you, you, british, series and/or composition:
“Do you think you can cure a diseased mind by, by brutality?”
—Jan Read. Robert Day. Dr. McColl (Tim Turner)
“The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
“Gorgonised me from head to foot,
With a stony British stare.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)