All Quotes

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me.
‐‐ Toni Servillo

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.
‐‐ Luciano Pavarotti

Opera is really fun.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
‐‐ Shane Koyczan

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
‐‐ Diane Paulus

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
‐‐ Robert Benchley

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

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
‐‐ Kenneth Clark

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
‐‐ Ildar Abdrazakov

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc.
‐‐ Sondra Radvanovsky

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.
‐‐ Lisa See

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge established throughout Cambodia, primarily because so many of its prisoners were the purged party loyal - and because Duch's methods were so stunningly brutal.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.
‐‐ John Mackey

'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.
‐‐ Eric Holder

Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south.
‐‐ Greg Walden

Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.
‐‐ Menachem Begin

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
‐‐ Barack Obama

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
‐‐ Voltaire

Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering facts on the ground.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
‐‐ John Erskine

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
‐‐ Plato

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer

Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
‐‐ Lord Acton

Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.
‐‐ David Hewson

Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
‐‐ Feist

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
‐‐ Lord Byron

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
‐‐ Daisy Bates

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.
‐‐ Cass McCombs

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
‐‐ Andre Malraux

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
‐‐ Morihei Ueshiba

Opponents criticize Trump for not acting presidential enough; all the while, Obama created and perpetuates the presidential code to demean, disdain and diminish others in light of esteeming himself.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for.
‐‐ Joshua A. Tucker

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.
‐‐ Rand Paul

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.
‐‐ Sander Levin

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
‐‐ Catherine Deneuve

Opportunities are running out, and this is the do-or-die situation when the ball is in your hands, and you can either help your team to victory or not. And so I want to be in those situations. I think about them, and almost look forward to them.
‐‐ Eli Manning