#pera

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole. ↗

— Arthur Holly Compton

#lifeblood #science #similarly #society #technology

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control. ↗

— John Cornyn

#control #english #english language #i #i do

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it. ↗

— Noel Coward

#people #say #they say #used #wrong

I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation. ↗

— Javier Cuadros

#colleagues #confirms #consensus #curiously #decreasing

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#day #had #hands #i #least

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