#pera

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company. ↗

— John Lone

#beijing #company #craft #i #into

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#door #joy #nose #repose #slam

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#billionaire #brains #brainy #broker #cries

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#even #lived #lives #opera #soap

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#desperately #i #longer #monotonous #nothing

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#cooperation #earnest #justice #peace #people

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation. ↗

— Ida Lupino

#cooperation #did #got #i #know

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#doing #getting #hours #i #i always

The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#commercial #commercial work #drama #greater #happen

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink