#opera

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. ↗

— Andy Grove

#during #era #fantasy #growing #growing up

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.' ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#cancer #done #drinking #had #hand

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#air #air force #experience #extension #faster

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#i #ignorance #much #operate #pretty

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. ↗

— David Korten

#cooperation #countries #easier #holland #humane

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

#cooperation #government #must #plan #succeed

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#drama #get #must #opera #play

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#genius #operating #operating system #simple #simplicity

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#am #any #better #different #done

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. ↗

— James K. Polk

#among #congress #create #disreputable #embarrasses