"So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment."

-- Beverly Sills

#Long Quotes #Listening Quotes #Opera Quotes

“God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.”
“Poems are rough notations for the music we are.”
“I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'”
“Everything's coming up roses - for me.”
“I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken”
“Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.430, The Floating Press
“LeBron james came, and he gets $10 million a year. There was no stigma or blemish, like you have with one-and-done. Now people say, "He's not a student, he's an athlete." Well, of course he's not a student! He's here for one year and he told you he's here for one year, and the school took him with open arms.”
“What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.”

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