Coloratura Quotes

#1. My role is almost a sight-gag. I have to be a woman to sing the lyrics "I am a man" to have it be a joke. I start the lyric in a male-register and a whole coloratura up into a soprano. And other points in the show ... like the guy who likes to be treated like a baby and wear a diaper!

Max Von Essen

#2. I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

Anna Netrebko

#3. The dwarfs were staring at Lady Sybil as she changed up through the gears into full, operatic voice. For an amateur soprano she had an impressive delivery and range, a touch too wobbly for the professional stage but exactly the kind of high coloratura to impress the dwarfs. Snow

Terry Pratchett

#4. I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.

Anna Netrebko

#5. No one I remember still lives there except Madame Sapphia Spanella, a husky coloratura who every afternoon went roller-skating in Central Park.

Truman Capote

#6. My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

Clare Bowen

#7. Ignorance is a fools castle.

Anonymous

#8. A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.

Ronald Colman

#9. What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.

Thomas Pynchon

#10. If you're doing something that people want, they'll find you.

Jack White

#11. Embrace all souls from every nation with love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. And each time, he slipped a little deeper into my bones.

A.L. Jackson

#13. As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.

A.W. Tozer

#14. All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence ... the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

Andre Trocme

#15. To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.

Kei Miller

#16. the End of Everything meant the End maybe for all time, maybe in all the universe, of Golf.

Peter Heller

#17. We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil ... The best way to break this addiction is through technology

George W. Bush