"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house."

-- Maria Callas

#Imagination Quotes #Long Quotes #House Quotes

“Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."”
“I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“BjÃ¶rkâ€™s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.”
“Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now looks like a country that is persecuting people. And that's very bad.”
“This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.”
“Definitely I'm convinced that behind my case there is a trial of the church.”
“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”
“The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.”

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