"The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public."

-- Carlisle Floyd

#Years Quotes #Together Quotes #Opera Quotes

“A princely mind will undo a private family.”
“There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.”
“In summer the empire of insects spreads.”

Source : "In Valleys" by Adam Zagajewski, www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.
“I have never been able to let Iraq go. It is a part of me. Even under Saddam Hussein, even despite what the country went through, and despite how violent and tribal it can be, there is still a certain purity to the kindness of the population.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“... you never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best ...”
“Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.”

Source : "Fictional character: David Rossi". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 2: "The Pact", October 10, 2012.
“... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.”
“Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We're all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them are being made.”

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