Opera Quotes

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

Building Union among people not cooperation between states

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict or cooperation, will be one of the most engaging questions of the 21st century.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything.

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.