Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON True friendship is worth more than can be measured,
a quality forever to be treasured.
Tr...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON In fantasy, you have licence to pick whatever you like out of history and fantasy, and you don't...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing a...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I grew up reading - and loving - stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her ...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I've heard that many fine artists have to turn their 'finished' paintings to face the wa...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.'...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did n...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON The Internet is amazing.
CECILIA DART-THORNTON Whenever the kindly uncles and aunts came over for a cup of tea and asked what I wanted to be when I...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON Brody's not gay. But then he kisses a boy. So he might be gay? No, Brody's not gay. But he loves thi...
DART GRAY Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet...
RICHARD POUSETTE-DART When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what m...
CECILIA BARTOLI I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as th...
CECILIA BARTOLI Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.
CECILIA ZALKIND On average, our students score higher on national achievement tests, they are more likely to attend ...
CECILIA ZALKIND We certainly support his nomination. I think he's a great choice.
CECILIA ZALKIND While these southern counties do have some small cities, a lot of the poverty that infects child wel...
CECILIA ZALKIND It's frustrating to know we have this incredible opportunity for kids [that] we're already beginning...
CECILIA ZALKIND Over half a million children live in families that struggle to pay the rent and put food on the tabl...
CECILIA ZALKIND This survey tells us that candidates who support pre-K have a better chance of winning at the polls.
CECILIA ZALKIND I think there was a sense that children's services needed to be a greater priority and that organizi...
CECILIA ZALKIND I'm so proud of him it's unbelievable.
CECILIA RODHE This is a dream come true for him. We're so proud.
CECILIA RODHE I wouldn't miss it for the world.
CECILIA RODHE When you are in a team situation, it's never comfortable. Everybody has to put energy in what's happ...
CECILIA RODHE It's a wonderful decision. I applaud all of them.
CECILIA RODHE He likes to share his energy. That has always been his way of communicating. He's in a very protecte...
CECILIA RODHE I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned.
CECILIA MUNOZ It is a bill that has driven more than a million people out this week.
CECILIA MUNOZ The outpouring of anger in the community is combined with the hope that the Senate will do better.
CECILIA MUNOZ Cardinal Mahony speaking out unleashed something really big. He, the church, made this issue public ...
CECILIA MUNOZ We do think it's workable. We're encouraged by it.
CECILIA MUNOZ That one fact is why people are not coming through legal channels.
CECILIA MUNOZ There are 11 million people living and working in the United States. This bill ultimately does nothi...
CECILIA MUNOZ Let's take a deep breath here. I guess what's frustrating is that Senator Kerry was just at our conf...
CECILIA MUNOZ There are 11 million [undocumented immigrants] living and working in the United States. This bill ul...
CECILIA MUNOZ This is not something to be playing politics with. The lives of millions of people are at stake here...
CECILIA MUNOZ They are very much taking it seriously. We're very optimistic.
CECILIA JOHNSON Our senior class thought this was going to go away. Our juniors now know. They are getting very conc...
CECILIA JOHNSON The principals are in full support of this.
CECILIA JOHNSON We (she and her husband) made the commitment to join Our Lady Queen of Peace and help the Brazilian ...
CECILIA JOHNSON What immigrants feel immediately is isolation.
CECILIA JOHNSON It's been very useful for those students who are shy and may not participate in face-to-face classro...
CECILIA JOHNSON We feel the online program is comparable to a face-to-face setting because teachers write the curric...
CECILIA JOHNSON It's a big deal. If you're living with the pain and numbness, it's a big deal.
CECILIA FARLEY I just kind of gradually was able to lift more within two weeks very little pain and of course a sma...
CECILIA FARLEY I went to a doctor and had it diagnosed but then thought, I can't do it. I'd have to be off two week...
CECILIA FARLEY These three fingers would go numb. It would go into the thumb. Intense. Intense pain. Right here to ...
CECILIA FARLEY Once I did interviews with her family and got all of the medical information that I needed, I starte...
CECILIA CARROLL I finally went home to my country three years ago. There is so much poverty there and so many kids n...
CECILIA CARROLL She has been staying with me since April 4. It's been working out good. It's better for them because...
CECILIA CARROLL It's for the kids. It's like you are giving a new life to a child.
CECILIA CARROLL I would love if she could get donations to maybe go to Disney World or something before she leaves, ...
CECILIA CARROLL A lot of people donate their miles. The Rotary only pays for hospitalization, the operation and medi...
CECILIA CARROLL The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give...
CECILIA BARTOLI Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.
CECILIA BARTOLI "The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decid...
CECILIA BARTOLI The beginning of the 19th century in Germany and Vienna was a new era with German composers writing ...
CECILIA BARTOLI Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy...
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I would love to do some Handel operas. The oratorios are also beautiful. I would love to d...
CECILIA BARTOLI I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's very special historic time, and there was a lot of change made in 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI You have different directors, and as a singer you have to be an actress too. It's a fusion-make sing...
CECILIA BARTOLI Sometimes I can have a desire to do this and that, but my voice-it likes to go straight.
CECILIA BARTOLI The point of adoption is to create a new family with all the rights and responsibilities that go wit...
CECILIA ZALKIND I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's...
CECILIA BARTOLI I'm not sure anybody totally understands this phenomenon. ... But we are happily stunned. We're all ...
CECILIA MUNOZ I don't want to say the career is my prince, because I want a real prince. I feel it's a little like...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building...
CECILIA BARTOLI I was surprised to learn that Gluck spent some months in Prague at the time when we know operas by V...
CECILIA BARTOLI The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive ...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think at least God said hello to me. I was lucky, lucky to have the voice, but also lucky to have ...
CECILIA BARTOLI She was very accomplished and this was before the feminist movement.
CECILIA MRUK We are calling on leadership on both sides of the aisle to get back to it. The life of millions of p...
CECILIA MUNOZ This is a gesture to the xenophobic wing of the party, and that is alarming. It threatens extraordin...
CECILIA MUNOZ When I suggested a Vivaldi disc [in the late 90s], it was difficult to convince them to do it. But i...
CECILIA BARTOLI And the only thing I knew how to do was to hold on as tightly as possible and count every single sec...
CECILIA VINESSE We will not accept enforcement-only approaches.
CECILIA MUNOZ If federal authorities are using this as an enforcement opportunity, it creates a moral dilemma for ...
CECILIA MUNOZ I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
CECILIA BARTOLI The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That f...
CECILIA BARTOLI When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you hav...
CECILIA BARTOLI I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena...
CECILIA BARTOLI She felt that if you educated a woman, you educated a family.
CECILIA MRUK If you want to create a permanent underclass, this is the way to do it.
CECILIA MUNOZ Consider, O Lover, my throat
white as cigarette paper.

The crushed lavender of my kn...
CECILIA LLOMPART Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what...
CECILIA BARTOLI You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
CECILIA BARTOLI Just to have the impression that this comes naturally is just one way from the diaphragm I mean, unt...
CECILIA BARTOLI We don't want the Olympic Games becoming, let's say, a Formula-One event where sponsors are on cars,...
CECILIA GANDINI I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for i...
CECILIA BARTOLI She taught me an awful lot about the clouds.
CECILIA MRUK Jessica guffawed. “Well, almost every need. It will be every need when we walk in the door and the...
CECILIA AUBREY It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and buil...
CECILIA BARTOLI I think, ultimately, this committee can report out a bill.
CECILIA MUNOZ If we pass reforms that either pretend they're not here or pretend they'll go away, we're fooling ou...
CECILIA MUNOZ The only way something gets through is on a bipartisan vote.
CECILIA MUNOZ We couldn't possibly support a proposal that says you can work here, but you can never be apart of o...
CECILIA MUNOZ It doesn't really deal with why people are migrating or why our economy is so dependent on their lab...
CECILIA MUNOZ And I was sent to the left.
CECILIA ETKIN My memories. I still have nightmares, just screamed in my dream. About a year ago, I had a dream, th...
CECILIA ETKIN No I didn't. My parents were killed.
CECILIA ETKIN I am a person of the 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI
"The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who ...
CECILIA BARTOLI The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
CECILIA BARTOLI The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the mo...
CECILIA BARTOLI I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and the...
CECILIA BARTOLI German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Swi...
CECILIA BARTOLI Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I...
CECILIA RANDELL The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine ...
CECILIA BARTOLI Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w...
CECILIA LONDON Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars...
CECILIA LONDON I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian f...
CECILIA BARTOLI I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle....
CECILIA BARTOLI So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
CECILIA BARTOLI I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in...
CECILIA BARTOLI Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
CECILIA BARTOLI We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started...
CECILIA BARTOLI Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With ...
CECILIA BARTOLI People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It w...
CECILIA BARTOLI Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when ...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.
CECILIA BARTOLI So you see, movies are really another dimension.
CECILIA BARTOLI It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
CECILIA BARTOLI Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.
CECILIA ROTH I just love to take pictures.
CECILIA ROTH But it always came back to anger.
CECILIA GRAY It might not be distance or time that takes you away from people. Maybe you decide when you let them...
CECILIA VINESSE My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on y...
THORNTON WILDER The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resour...
THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
THORNTON WILDER The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.
THORNTON WILDER We just have to be patient and attack the gaps. The main thing is to get what we want.
AL THORNTON I'm being more assertive. It's something I can do. I'm just recognizing my potential.
AL THORNTON Looking back on the (Boston College) game, we could have easily won. It felt great to go out and sco...
AL THORNTON I just tried to step up and be a leader and come through for my teammates.
AL THORNTON We just never got our offense going. We knew it was going to be tough and we didn't focus like we sh...
AL THORNTON It's not just the coaches who are holding the players accountable. The players, we're holding each o...
AL THORNTON He just stepped up and made the big plays that really got us going.
AL THORNTON It's very important for us. We're known as a team around the league that doesn't play well on the ro...
AL THORNTON I feel like we're able to take coaching. You know the coaches are going to raise their voice and the...
AL THORNTON Now the whole team is punished.
AL THORNTON Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...
THORNTON WILDER There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, th...
THORNTON WILDER Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars...
THORNTON WILDER I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhoo...
THORNTON WILDER I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
THORNTON WILDER The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t...
THORNTON WILDER Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and ...
THORNTON WILDER Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous...
THORNTON WILDER Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the im...
THORNTON WILDER There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, th...
THORNTON WILDER I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
THORNTON WILDER A play visibly represents pure existing.
THORNTON WILDER Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of th...
THORNTON WILDER The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which ...
THORNTON WILDER It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adve...
THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
THORNTON WILDER There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the ...
THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...
THORNTON WILDER I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of...
THORNTON WILDER The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've...
THORNTON WILDER Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
THORNTON WILDER Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modest...
THORNTON WILDER When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you ...
THORNTON WILDER Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures o...
THORNTON WILDER Most of us know when we are about to react emotionally. We can feel it. Often there is a brief warni...
ELIZABETH THORNTON Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if ...
ELIZABETH THORNTON Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what i...
ELIZABETH THORNTON The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of th...
THORNTON WILDER When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contri...
ELIZABETH THORNTON If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived no...
ELIZABETH THORNTON Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
THORNTON WILDER Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
THORNTON WILDER The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being...
ELIZABETH THORNTON I filmed an interstitial with Allisyn Ashley Arm and Matthew Scott Montgomery one day. And we made u...
TIFFANY THORNTON A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arres...
THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
THORNTON WILDER Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
THORNTON WILDER Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
THORNTON WILDER Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high o...
THORNTON WILDER Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
THORNTON WILDER I thought we came out and took advantage of our scoring opportunities. We put the ball in play and m...
BRUCE THORNTON Valentine's Day card baby with the bow and arrows and wings. He's not threatening.
BRUCE THORNTON I don't worry about that stuff, ... I came off the street not too long ago. I'm just glad to be play...
BRUCE THORNTON the numerous convictions of ... fathers and day-care workers based on memories fabricated by neuroti...
BRUCE THORNTON You get a big high from the interception. But a low from the loss.
BRUCE THORNTON Now I just have to hold onto my spot.
BRUCE THORNTON We've got a lot of people hurt, so I'm trying to step up and help the team any way I can,
BRUCE THORNTON It feels good, and there's a personal gratification for myself, but it's still no good because of th...
BRUCE THORNTON It's exciting to have my first start against a team like the Colts. But we lost, so it's kind of goo...
BRUCE THORNTON We were tired out there. But, you have to give (Meridian) credit because they played all 21 outs har...
BRUCE THORNTON He probably runs the fastest 40 meters in the country.
BUBBA THORNTON