Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rubenstein

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

Cecilia Bartoli

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Ashley Benson

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.

Bruce Beresford

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

The proceeds are used for the operation of the Bedouin Shrine Temple and to support our transportation department,

Elizabeth Bowen

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

When you can find somebody or something that relates to you and your experiences, it puts opera in a whole different perspective,

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Andrea Bocelli

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

Andrea Bocelli

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

We operate it. We don't own it. That's a big difference.

We operate in this state under a series of rules.

Thalia

My soap operas have been seen by a billion people all around the world.

Megan Smith

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Frank Grillo

The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline.

Claire Danes

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

David Cronenberg

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

Douglas Adams

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Don DeLillo

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

Anna Netrebko

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

He's been a real smooth operator for us here lately.