Quotes by Richard Wagner

“Every year I get fantastic deals on restaurant gift certificates and art, while supporting an organization that does great work in our community,”

“The gourmet food alone is worth the $20 entrance fee.”

“We treat a lot of patients who have tans and get skin cancer. We tell them to cut back [on their tanning], but they just cant seem to stop.”

“Even people with severely damaged skin say they cant stop, ... The behavior observed was similar to that of smokers.”

“Quite a few said they would sit out in the back yard or go to a pool in order to maintain their tan,”

“Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.”

Manys the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...

Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: “You see, my son, time turns here into space

Joy is not in things it is in us.

I cant distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

What manner of thing this public opinion is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the Press.

Imagination creates reality.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

“Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: “You see, my son, time turns here into space”