#opera

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#i #i think #melodrama #myself #opera

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#brigade #could #criminal #evaluate #had

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#bladder #day #decided #everything #examined

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#alone #capacity #employee #employer #his

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#co-operative #each #employer #fellow #his

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#bill #budget #contributions #hyde #main

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#architecture #capital #car #developed #extended

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