Figaro Quotes

#1. My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

Danielle De Niese

#2. It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

Riccardo Muti

#3. Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

Peter Shaffer

#4. We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids ...

George Sand

#5. As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

Susanna Phillips

#6. If you look at Marriage of Figaro or Butterfly or Traviata, all of those elements are in there. I also have to have a very specific location in mind. The physical environment of where the opera takes place is very key - the "sound world."

Jake Heggie

#7. This day of torment, of craziness, of foolishness - only love can make it end in happiness and joy. - W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)

Martha C. Nussbaum

#8. My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.

Elaine Paige

#9. Ash had said that eyes were windows to a person's soul, but hers were the windows to his. ~ Dante

Marita A. Hansen

#10. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.

Agatha Christie

#11. It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.

Ani DiFranco

#12. Eventually, between the

Kathryn McMaster

#13. So it may be that going to the hospital slightly increases your odds of surviving if you've got a serious problem but increases your odds of dying if you don't. Such are the vagaries of life.

Steven D. Levitt

#14. Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education

Yvor Winters

#15. If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#16. This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.

Seneca The Younger

#17. He continued, slowly, by a process of osmosis and white knowledge (which is like white noise, only more useful), to comprehend the city, a process that accelerated when he realized that the actual City of London itself was no bigger than a square mile.

Aldous Huxley

#18. I wish the Lord would take me now

Livia

#19. A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.

Jay Leno

#20. Monsieur Flaubert is not a writer. [1857]

Le Figaro

#21. I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

Robin Gibb

#22. If you hear about your brother something of which you disapprove, seek from one to

Tariq Ramadan

#23. I'm pretty sure that wasn't there before," Nick grumbled.
Kelly laughed harder. "I'm pretty sure it was."
"Shut up."
"You're high."
"Oh, look at the pothead calling the kettle names," Nick said in a singsong voice as he settled onto the wide chaise beside Kelly.

Abigail Roux