Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is not a two-bit drug dealer. It took a sophisticated operation to take him down.

Peter Boyle

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

Placido Domingo

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

Stefan Kanfer

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

Simon Callow

I'd like to direct more operas.

Tod Machover

I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.

Stephen Hawking

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

Mike Matthews

Embassies are quite involved. They need to be able to operate as a separate entity.

As the operation stabilizes, we'll pull them back out again.

Currently, these operating results are not reflective of where we want to be.

We're going to be operating three times a week at the start of this service to Buenos Aires,

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

David Byrne

The operators are not button-pushers, ... It's a give and take with the performers. In my work, technology is a performer.

The operator doesn't have to stare at the screen and guess.

The operation is a long way from finished. There's a lot more work to go.

The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.

We feel we can operate within those (restrictions).

We feel this operating system can be competitive with Windows CE.

Victor Hugo

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

Renee Fleming

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Robertson Davies

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Stephen Colbert

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

Thomas Beecham

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

Gordon Bethune

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

Christopher Lee

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts

Jasper Fforde

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

Groucho Marx

Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down! Because of you, I almost heard the opera!

Groucho Marx

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Franz Liszt

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

Eve Best

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

Mike Jacobs

It's in the realm of operating systems that the most troublesome problems exist,