#opera

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#come #did #felt #i #off

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#dealing #easy #feed #forget #into

But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#combination #deeper #events #fell #influences

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#common #earth #everybody #fate #going

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#ambitious #because #become #behind #effectively

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#duty #evil #good #much

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#certain #co-operation #conditions #duty #equally

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #dues #long #manner #means

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role. ↗

— Judy Garland

#opera #role #soap #soap opera #try

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#baseball #enough #five #games #get