I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin] — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium. — Joan Fontaine Copy Share Image
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet,… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera,… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I had no sense of having reached some goal because I was an etoile at the Paris Opera. My ambition, if you… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
“In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
