Castrato Opera Quotes & Sayings

Once you start trying to make life simple, it's not simple anymore. — Marty Rubin

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles. — Jack Huston

My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church. — Carmen Rasmusen

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier

A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness. — Eric Hoffer

And listened for Lula's knock on his door. — Janet Evanovich

Time is not your enemy, forever is. — Chris Avellone

To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon. It is astonishing how often such mutuality had been realized - how frequently parents who had supposed that they couldn't care for an exceptional child discover that they can. The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances. There is more imagination in the world than one might think. — Andrew Solomon

They walked, and the long waves rolled and murmured rhythmically beside them; the fresh salty wind blew free and unobstructed in their faces, wrapped itself around their ears, and made them feel slightly numb and deliciously dizzy. They walked along in that wide, peaceful, whispering hush of the sea that gives every sound, near or far, some mysterious importance. — Thomas Mann

Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it. — Mike Tyson

I discovered the secret of writing - live in the present moment. Do not fantasize about possible response because you cannot know the future. — Erica Jong

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me. — Marian Seldes

Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice. — Laura Ruby