I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

Jeb Bush

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.

Noelle Oxenhandler

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

Marshall Fishwick

How can a girl look so innocent and so hot at the same time?

Angela Richardson

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

Audrey Hepburn

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Albrecht Durer

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Ida Tarbell

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Gore Vidal

Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Richard Dawkins