#opera

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#buff #classical #classical music #designer #great

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me. ↗

— John Sexton

#cooperative #general #general manager #had #magical

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#couples #eyes #fat #italian #just

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#anesthesia #endure #life #operation #which

I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#better #going #guy #i #kind

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#important #more #operations #quality #quantity

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. ↗

— William Shenstone

#best #best time #cooperate #forcibly #frame

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#applied #because #being #believe #book

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#both #both sides #broad #cooperation #goodwill

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#bit #his way #i #life #me