Supposing Quotes

I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of - I want to be very careful about how I say this - in terms of supporting one`s voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you`re singing. So be true to your vowels. Supposing you have to sing (from "The Messiah") "Behold thy king cometh unto thee". If you do a strong "thee", it will help you with the "-hold", which is a much higher note. And it`s the note before the note that matters, then you unpeel a song backwards.

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg`s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.