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.

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

W. H. Auden

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Robert Cecil

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Alice Walker

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Margaret Atwood

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Joseph Addison

Men want to make women happy.

Jerry Seinfeld

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Cecil B. De Mille

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.

Publilius Syrus

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

Imelda Staunton

I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Fred Durst

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Johnny Weissmuller

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Charles Baudelaire