Quotes of: Opera-singer Keyword

I flutter my eyes ladylike. "I know the green fairy is absinthe, but what's the white angel?" "Cocaine. Wilde, by the way frequents this café. He claims he once saw an angel fluttering over the square. I image what he saw flying was one of the stone...

The Alchemy of Murder

I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to han...

Looking for Alaska

The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god. Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.

Lady White Snake: A Tale From Chinese Opera

Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have at the lenth and breath of Scripture? Can you not see his promised land flowing with peanut butter and jelly; his apocalypse, in which the great ...

The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection

Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wa...

The Phantom of the Opera

She did it, though she hated opera. She hated everything about it. The overblown sense of drama. The violence and lewdness. No one had ever died of heartbreak in Reverie. Betrayal never led to murder. Those things didn’t happen anymore. They had th...

Under the Never Sky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: I am fed to the teeth with elevated themes! Old dead legends! Why must we go on forever writing about gods and legends? Baron Van Swieten: Because they do. They go on forever. Or at least what they represent. The eternal in u...

Amadeus

Un despota imbecille può costringere gli schiavi con le catene di ferro; ma un vero politico li lega assai più fortemente con la catena delle proprie idee. lLegame tanto più forte perché ne ignoriamo la tessitura e la crediamo opera nostra. Sulle...

Love

As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.

Susanna Phillips

In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan -Thérèse Nyirabayovu

Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa

...and - holy shit was this song bad. It was like the singer was stabbing my ear with a dagger made of dried turds.

John Dies at the End

Yeah, sorry for not being all Betty Bad Ass; fighting isn't exactly a requirement for jazz singers.

Revelations of the Soul

I want to be my own wedding singer at my own wedding. But first I’ll have to audition.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it.

Daryl Hall

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Linus Pauling

We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but the painter is one.

Osho

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

Pat Benatar

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

Paloma Faith

As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.

Peng Liyuan

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Patti Smith