What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

— Slavoj Žižek

“You should be alive as you can until you're totally dead.”

— Dylan Moran

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

— William Tecumseh Sherman

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

— Patricia Briggs

If you can connect people, you can create the future.

— Scott Heiferman

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

— Samuel Goldwyn

If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

— Richard Rohr

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as…

— Eva Zeisel

It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the…

— Maria Callas

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

— Wang Leehom

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

— Wole Soyinka

If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is…

— Judith Martin

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

— Kristine Opolais

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

— Renee Fleming

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start…

— Eva LaRue