#is

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#art form #become #breathing #breathing thing #form

There are no such things as curses; only people and their decisions ↗

— Yvonne Wood

#decisions #life #beauty

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive. ↗

— Colin Firth

#aggressive #air #constantly #find #humour

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#failed #humiliating #idiots #more #nothing

They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques. ↗

— Colin Firth

#although #been #cheques #come #contemplate

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#any #court #deliberate #disrespectful #fear

The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#israel #just #palestinians #robbing #them

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#goal #must #success #success is

Solutions must be based on compromises. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#compromises #must #solutions

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#certainly #charge #experience #head #i