Vishnevskaya Galina Quotes & Sayings

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. — Galina Vishnevskaya

A police state is a country run by criminals — Robert Harris

I'll say something else about Christine O'Donnell. You ready? I'd rather look at her than Mike Castle. I think she's kind of cute. I think she's kind of refreshing. She's a conservative. What's the problem? — Rush Limbaugh

Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend. — Phoebe Cates

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time. — Galina Vishnevskaya

When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry. — Bubba Watson

I think you're very brave," he whispered. "You're a fire that should burn itself out in five seconds of brilliant combustion. I know what it's like to put forth that much energy, and yet you do it night after night. And nobody - not marquesses nor guardians nor physicians, not the whole weight of society's expectations - can make you stop." She let out a sigh, a trembling sigh that had her lips brushing against his thumb. So much like a kiss. "If people want you to stop talking, or to stop dressing the way you do, or to change who you are, it's because you hurt their eyes. We've all been trained not to stare into the sun. — Courtney Milan

Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business. — Bennett Cerf

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will. — Ignatius Of Loyola

Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting. — Truth Devour

Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance. — Galina Vishnevskaya

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation. — Thom Gunn

I'm not that big of a partier. I wasn't concerned about missing out on things in college. — Matt Holliday

I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me. — Junot Diaz

Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. — Max Brooks