Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ford

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

Mahatma Gandhi

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

Slavoj Zizek

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

Nina Hagen

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.

Maurice Sendak

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

Maurice Sendak

I became a set designer for opera.

Maureen O'Hara

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

Marlene Dietrich

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

These are new programs, new dollars, ... They do not pay for operating expenses. Not one dollar, not one cent, is going to (beds in the shelter).

John Irving

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

Eric Taylor

Are you suggesting that we reopen the Opera with a murder as an added attraction?

Kate Winslet

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

Leona Lewis

I would love to sing opera.

Leland Stanford

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

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.

Stephen Hawking

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

Tod Machover

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

Simon Callow

I'd like to direct more operas.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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

Rudolf Bing

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Stefan Kanfer

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

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.

Zola Jesus

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.