In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained opera singer. I thought that was my journey. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed,… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer. — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life. — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera! — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I had the working class ethic. I wanted to make a living and there weren't many opportunities for an opera singer in… — Jane McDonald Copy Share Image
For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
“Exposing impressionable young men to the glories of opera on their first evening at home with you tended to put the kiss… — Anthony McDonald Copy Share Image
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays,… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance. — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
