Quotes of: Soap-opera Keyword

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

Harrison Birtwistle

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Hannah More

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

John Marshall

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

Jerome Lawrence

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Lauren Worsham

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

W. H. Auden

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

Placido Domingo

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Sarah Caldwell

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

Lesley Manville

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Neville Marriner

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

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

Werner Herzog

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

Andrea Bocelli

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Victor Borge

Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera is the birth of the theoretical man, the critical layman, not of the artist: one of the most surprising ...

The Birth of Tragedy

[On Kane finishing Leland's bad review of Susan's opera singing] Mr. Bernstein: Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland. But why did he do it? How could a man write a notice like that? Jedediah Leland: You just don't know Charlie. He thought that by f...

Citizen Kane

Eddie: Oh, and if Tom or anyone else for that matter feels like givin' them a bit of a kickin', I'm sure it won't do any harm. Soap: Yeah, little bit of pain never hurt anybody. If you know what I mean. Also, I think knives are a good idea. Big, fuck...

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it...

Rob Sheffield

Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.

22 Britannia Road

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

Insurgent

Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.

The Road to Hope