Varuzhan Kadoyan Quotes & Sayings

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me. — Toni Servillo

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy. — Bruce Hoffman

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — G.H. Hardy

New York has collapsed. — James Purdy

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with. — Jean Paul Gaultier

I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room. — David Byrne

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with. — Seth Godin

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense. — Garrison Keillor

I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue. — Nigel Lawson

An invisible, yet active current of mental energy, underscores any book as well as any other form of artistic creation. A creative burst of psychological energy ignites any creative project. The emotional energy that underlies the artistic work propels it forward endowing it with articulation, texture, rhythm, and movement. When the expressive energy of the artist flags, the work comes to a stopping point and it takes on its final composition. — Kilroy J. Oldster

There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness. — Walter Lippmann