"H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera."

-- Marlene Dietrich

#Opera Quotes #Stores Quotes #Hardware Quotes

“I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.”
“My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.”
“People have a need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center it awakens consciousness.”
“Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.”
“I think the anti-prostitution feminists need to do some consciousness-raising amongst themselves about their feelings. But that's a different political activity. Asking ourselves, how do we feel about the fact that our boyfriends, our husbands, our male partners might hire sex workers? They should have that conversation, but they shouldn't attach it to policy conversations that affect people.”
“You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.”
“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”

Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.

You may also like:

Edith Piaf
Singer
Greta Garbo
Film actress
Hildegard Knef
Actress
Jean Gabin
Film actor
Joan Crawford
Dancer
Josef von Sternberg
Film director
Mae West
Actress
Marilyn Monroe
Actress
Rita Hayworth
Dancer