#opera

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it. ↗

— Noel Coward

#people #say #they say #used #wrong

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. ↗

— Moliere

#known #man #most #noises #opera

The American people have a right to know on the rare occasions in which their money is used to invest in private operations, if you will, take bets on capitalism, that is very well vetted, very well thought out and without political interference. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#american people #bets #capitalism #interference #invest

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#cooperation #face #global #global warming #i

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands. ↗

— Maria Jeritza

#case #demands #dramatic #every #exertion

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#been #china #coexistence #committed #cooperation

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#easily #emotional #i #levels #operate

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#after #expert #familiar #leader #operate

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency. ↗

— Paul Rudd

#because #frequency #his #me #nelson

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning. ↗