#pera

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. ↗

— Steven Berkoff

#director #great #house #opera #opera house

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#delusion #divorce #infidelity #marriage #men

Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere. ↗

— Barry Bostwick

#even #i #later #opera #richard

I believe in cooperating for the common good. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#common #common good #cooperating #good #i

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#depends #effect #enlarging #essential #final

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#clearly #environment #exciting #gift #individual

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#careful #desperately #give #gives #gonna

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. ↗

— Montserrat Caballe

#give #give me #impossible #me #moment

I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it—I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#also #because #challenge #comfortable #cooperate