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Quotes About Viola

Now we must feast!' Dorothy declared as they headed indoors. Not on the baby, but on its placenta, fried by Jeanette with onions and parsley. Viola declined her portion – it seemed like cannibalism, not to mention utterly disgusting.
~ Kate Atkinson
A van drew up in the centre of St. Helen's Square and disgorged several people dressed as zombies. The zombies proceeded to chase the men who were dressed as condoms. The condom men didn't seem very surprised, as if they were expecting to be chased by zombies. ("They pay for it," Bertie said.) Was this fun? Viola despaired. It was possible, she thought, that she had won the race to reach the end of civilization. There was no prize. Obviously.
~ Kate Atkinson
Francesca não respondeu, intrigada com aquele homem (...) que tocava viola, que ganhava a vida com imagens e carregava o equipamento em mochilas. Que era como o vento. E que se movia como o vento. Que talvez viesse dele.
~ Robert James Waller
And thinkest thou, Viola, that in a mere act of science there is so much virtue? The commonest leech will tend the sick for his fee. Are prayers and blessings a less reward than gold?
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.
~ Viola Davis
He is a regular guy who absolutely is not attracted to his own celebrity. He's a jokester, a little rough around the edges, with great heart and compassion; he loves his family. I feel very comfortable with him. I don't see 'Denzel Washington Star'; I just see Denzel.
~ Viola Davis
crowded about the four sides of the green to watch and cheer. Viola had set out from home early in the morning looking ladylike and elegant in a muslin dress and shawl and straw bonnet, her hair in a neatly braided coronet about her head beneath it. She had even been wearing gloves. But she had long ago discarded all the accessories. Even her hair, slipping stubbornly out of its pins during the busy morning of rushing hither and yon, had been allowed finally to hang loose in a long braid down
~ Mary Balogh
I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.
~ Viola Davis
Don't," Myrtle said sharply. "Thinking is not your strong suit, Pansy. Nor Viola's. Neither of you have any experience of the world on which to base any opinion at all. If you will keep your thoughts to yourself, they will not be exposed as foolishness.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
me duele ingresar en un orden cerrado, construido ya hasta en las más finas mallas del aire, esas que en su casa preservan la música de la lavanda, el aletear de un cisne con polvos, el juego del violín y la viola en el cuarteto de Rará.
~ Julio Cortazar
Custom without truth is error grown old." —Tertullian, third-century theologian
~ Frank Viola
If you're not careful, the viola can make the most awful screech,
~ Gayle Forman
Viola had a smile that could make the heavens open. She also had a frown of such scorn, it could send a man straight to hell.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
The viola da gamba sonatas, the same recording he was listening to now. Vittorio Ghielmi on gamba and Lorenzo Ghielmi on the fortepiano. He loved this recording for its clarity, and for its combination of melancholy and high spirits.
~ Lauren Belfer
The Australian sculptor who made leather sandals said that Beethoven's duet for viola and cello sounded to him like two bulky women rummaging under a bed. Behind him a girl said, —Of course I like music, but not just to listen to.
~ William Gaddis
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
~ Viola Davis
But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them. Viola: Thy reason, man? Feste: Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.
~ William Shakespeare
Where lies your text? Viola: In Orsino's bosom. Olivia: In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom? Viola: To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.
~ William Shakespeare
A spirit I am indeed,   But am in that dimension grossly clad   Which from the womb I did participate.   Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,   I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,   And say, 'Thrice welcome, drownèd Viola.
~ William Shakespeare
The first time I mentioned publicly that I had known Viola for some time, many people took it like Viola got me the job in 'Fences'.
~ Jovan Adepo
I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
~ Blythe Danner
Viola Davis, she does have a lot of TV acting jobs, and she's also a very, very accomplished stage actress.
~ Aaron Stanford
II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.
~ Kris Allen
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
~ Gavin Bryars