Madame Butterfly Quotes & Sayings

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music. — William Boyd

People who felt scared or desperate enough could do almost anything, even things that are extremely out of their character to do; things that are not natural to them. When it came to the human condition, it only took one small spark to light an inferno. — J.M. Northup

You should never be too much involved ... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly. — Renata Scotto

I really don't think anyone can blame us for wanting no part of the marriage mart if she is already the belle of the ball," Ella said. "My mother even had
the audacity to ask me earlier if I didn't think I should have a gown made like hers! Lord deliver me from the London season — Sarah MacLean

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public. — Giacomo Puccini

One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor. — Pat Cooper

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. — Mary Harris Jones

If there's no ethically correct solution, act irrationally. — Sergei Lukyanenko

Sometimes I believe evolution is an insult to the apes. — Tonya Johnson

After all, color in itself has no color - it's simply a construction of the mind: a sensation, like the Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly and the smell of honeysuckle. — Jasper Fforde