Operaontap Quotes & Sayings

In this particular instance, he stroked her hand fondly. There was no attraction in the movement. "Sweetling," he had once said, "you are at no more risk with me in that regard than you are in danger of me unexpectedly biting you
both being equal impossibilities. In the one case, I do not possess the necessary equipment upon contact, in the other case you do not. — Gail Carriger

I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with. — Hayao Miyazaki

Music really did mean something to him, he realized, and it always had. It called to him, although there were no words to describe what it promised. It was like a secret language he never forgot how to speak, a hometown he could always return to when he tired of what life was throwing at him. — Tad Williams

The other night I took her on-out of pity-and what do you think the crazy bitch had done to herself? She had shaved it clean ... not a speck of hair on it. Did you ever have a woman who shaved her twat? It's repulsive, ain't it? And it's funny, too. Sort of mad like. It doesn't look like a twat any more: it's like a dead clam or something." He describes to me how, his curiosity aroused, he got out of bed and searched for his flashlight. "I made her hold it open and I trained the flashlight on it. You should have seen me ... it was comical. I got so worked up about it that I forgot all about her. I never in my life looked at a cunt so seriously. — Henry Miller

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. — Zachary Taylor

A week-old baby is not a rational and self-aware being, and there are many nonhuman animals whose rationality, self-awareness, capacity to feel and so on, exceed that of a human baby a week or a month old. If, for the reasons I have given, the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either. — Peter Singer

Did Owen say your grandmother was a banshee?"
"He said she was 'wailing like a banshee,'" I explained.
Dan got out the dictionary , then; he was clucking his tongue and shaking his head, and laughing at himself saying, "That boy! What a boy! Brilliant but preposterous!" And that was the first time I learned, literally, what a banshee was
a banshee, in Irish folklore, is a female spirit whose wailing is a sign that a loved one will soon die. — John Irving

Money talks and I listen. — Toba Beta

Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach. — S.A. Tawks

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio ... radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary. — Garrison Keillor

But just because you're transparent about treating people poorly doesn't mean you're not an asshole for doing it. — Jennifer Tress

Pastors are over-extended taking care of a few hundred sheep in their church — Sunday Adelaja

I'm an actor who isn't fond of dialogue and who loves to act silently. — Francois Cluzet

Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am. — Miranda July

Leaders are those who empower others. — Bill Gates