"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

#Butterfly Quotes #Italian Quotes #People Quotes

“I ne'er could any luster seeIn eyes that would not look on me.”
“I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.”
“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.”
“I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.”
“Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age.”
“I think all of our experience with (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there,.”
“Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.”
“The dude in red's back at the pole, Up North where everything is cold. But if he were right here tonight, He'd say 'Merry Christmas! And to all, a good night!'”

Source : Song: Christmas Rappin', Album: Kurtis Blow, 1980

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