Famous quotes containing the words you think you, you, british, series and/or composition:
“Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)
“Never forget that you are Germans. Never forget that you are Nazis!”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Admiral Lutjens (Karel Stepanek)
“History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“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)