#pera

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#friday #friday night #house #i #junior

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#disappointment #german #group #hopelessness #i

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world. ↗

— John Eaton

#music #nevertheless #opera #out #piece

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. ↗

— Sheilah Graham

#created #desperately #energy #enough #exuberance

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations. ↗

— Lionel Jospin

#all nations #become #common #democracies #fight

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#against #cooperating #evil #helps #involved

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. ↗

— Moliere

#known #man #most #noises #opera

Music inflames temperament. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#temperament

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#confidence #cooperation #keep #least #must

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#children #clothes #dead #despair #desperate