Opera Quotes - Page 8

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

You have no idea how far I'm willing to go to acquire your cooperation.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.