Luminaries Quotes

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

(Just before his death, O`Donoghue attended a book party in Manhattan with Marilyn Miller. As luminaries and celebrities drifted by, O`Donoghue asked his friend,) Why didn`t I get this? Why did it turn out this way? ... Because, Michael, you didn`t want it. You kicked it in the teeth.

When his name is added to those of Pleyel and Kozeluch, Scottish melodies can boast of being harmonized by the greatest luminaries of modern music,