Famous Operatic Quotes & Sayings

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate;
Ambition is a means to thrive. — Donovan

I think that could go back to the time when people had to live in small groups of relatives - maybe fifty or a hundred people at the most. And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they could all have somebody to tell stories around the campfire at night, and somebody else to paint pictures on the walls of the caves, and somebody else who wasn't afraid of anything and so on. That's what I think. And of course a scheme like that doesn't make sense anymore, because simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions. — Kurt Vonnegut

to some asshole who has more credit in his pockets than I do? Not going to happen. — D.L. Jackson

I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series. — Sarah Mlynowski

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely. — Salma Hayek

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline. — Tarja Halonen

Look into your own existence. Count the significant events, the technological changes,and the inventions that have taken place in our environment since you were born, and compare them to what was expected before their advent. How many of them came on a schedule?
Look into your own personal life, to your choice of profession, say, or meeting your mate, your exile from your country of origin, the betrayals you faced, your sudden enrichment or impoverishment. How often did these things occur according to plan? — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Pretending to have faith is not the way. You need to call to God to reveal himself to you in his power, and then wait for him to come and find you. — Greg Pruett

The quality of death, like that of life, must be of an infinite variety, and if one has already died once, then what was there to look for in dying for good and all, as he was now? — Ray Bradbury