Didonato Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself - and impossible to find anywhere else. — Nicolas Chamfort

I was unstoppable, slamming down on the keys as if I were playing before a packed concert hall. Write! Write! Write! — Tiffanie DiDonato

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews. — Barry Sonnenfeld

It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close. — John Lydon

You know what really shuts up a bully? Learning how to build a pipe-bomb! — Daniel Tosh

(well, LOVE and gay rights - three cheers for straight girls who max out on helping gay guys) — David Levithan

You ... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment. — Joyce DiDonato

I'm a fucking train wreck, baby, I admit it. But ... I want to be better. I want to be the kind of man you need. — Skye Jordan

There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation. — Warren G. Harding

It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice. — Joyce DiDonato

I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre. — Joyce DiDonato

I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing. — Joyce DiDonato

In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China's most important philosopher. — Evan Osnos

She makes my old pick-up truck feel like a limousine. — Rhett Akins

We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy. — Carl Sagan

I'm a mama's boy. — Tyler Hoechlin

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it. — Joyce DiDonato

I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in. — Joyce DiDonato

I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing ... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over. — Joyce DiDonato

I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me. — Joyce DiDonato

I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy. — Allen West

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it. — Joyce DiDonato

It looks beautiful from out here, but nothing glitters quite as much when you get close up. — Kate Alcott

emptying out of my mother's belly
was my first act of disappearance
learning to shrink for a family
who likes their daughters invisible
was the second
the art of being empty
is simple
believe them when they say
you are nothing
repeat it to yourself
like a wish
i am nothing
i am nothing
i am nothing
so often
the only reason you know
you're still alive is from the
heaving of your chest — Rupi Kaur