You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. — Beverly Sills Adversity Copy Share Image
I frequently say that I never share blame, I never share credit, and I never share desserts! — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar. — Beverly Sills Caviar Copy Share Image
I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you're on… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment. — Beverly Sills Burden Copy Share Image
Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I think you have to take everything that looks like a blow and turn it into a triumph. This is where my… — Beverly Sills Energy Copy Share Image
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense… — Beverly Sills Art Copy Share Image
My parents never told me about Papa's lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which… — Beverly Sills Effort Copy Share Image
As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time. That's fine at… — Beverly Sills Beginning Copy Share Image
When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for… — Beverly Sills Anger Copy Share Image
In a sense, I revolutionized the operatic scene because I proved you can make a great international career without the Metropolitan. I'm… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment. — Beverly Sills Experiments Copy Share Image
I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at… — Beverly Sills Actor Copy Share Image
