#opera

Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#anyone #bin #chief #commander #critical

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#i #i can #opera #rock #songs

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#de niro #hero #horror #i #intensity

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#baseball #english #italian #just #main

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#atlantic ocean #backward #crab #crawling #ever

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#house #music #opera

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

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#composer #feels #good #intently #must

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear . ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#combine #dear #expensive #group #lot

We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#agree #alongside #because #both #bring

If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#cause #could #franklin #help #more