#opera

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

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. ↗

— James Mill

#exhortations #government #obstruct #operations #resist

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative. ↗

— Ron Ziegler

#others #statement

The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#feet #fully #laboratory #middle #operational

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cooperation #double #field #give #ideas

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#hope #interest #keep #lies #men

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#certainly #conscious #found #i #man

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#american people #ask #commitment #cooperation #defense