Quotes of: Opera-house Keyword

O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house!

Lear

I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. "Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to think of a house as a house, however, even if there is not remarkabl...

David Markson

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

Renee Fleming

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.

Robert Gottlieb

Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Karen DeCrow

I became a set designer for opera.

Maurice Sendak

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

David Rubenstein

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

Gian Carlo Menotti

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

Kevin Spacey

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Bobby Short

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Harrison Birtwistle

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

Jaime Winstone

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

Stefano Langone

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Don Rickles

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

Israel Horovitz

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timber will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.

Chinese

In a small house God has His corner, in a big house He has to stand in the hall.

Swedish

In a small house God has his corner, in a large house He has to stand in the hall.

Swedish

Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light, and listen to the music of the night... Close your eyes and sur...

The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal

He asked, looking at her dark-rimmed eyes, "You do not sleep?" She shivered. "No. I do not want to sleep any more. I sleep too much already. It is so cold, where Quincy sends me in my sleep. Deep into the house, farther in, not into the house we see....

Witch House