#lee

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#funny #humor #opera #stabbed #funny

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world. ↗

— Debra Winger

#eat #going #i #just #learn

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#awaken #him #man #perhaps #science

After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard. ↗

— James Wolcott

#backyard #beauty #cares #chase #dance

What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #cabaret #career #dope #dream

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. ↗

— James Wolcott

#arts #being #country #declining #due

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#fact #feature #get #gravitated #i

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#clouds #come #entire #forgetfulness #forgetting

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

#retellings #sleeping-beauty #beauty

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' ↗

— Steven Wright

#asked #did #few #girlfriend #good