"When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size."

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Source : Harold C. Schonberg (1985). “The virtuosi: classical music's legendary performers from Paganini to Pavarotti”, Vintage

Harold C. Schonberg

#Size Quotes #Grudge Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.”
“One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.”
“Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.”
“Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.”
“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”
“London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (1922). “Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship”
“You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.”
“In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.”

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