Jeritza Quotes

#1. It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

Maria Jeritza

#2. People were the same everywhere, no matter what lofty vows they proclaimed. Help was given only in the hope of its being reciprocated. Expectations of reward lurked behind every act of altruism.

Steven Erikson

#3. The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

Maria Jeritza

#4. Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering furure, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverise the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make.

Herman Melville

#6. A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!

Berton Braley

#7. Girl, you are wiser than your years."
"Actually, Randall, I'm just older than I look.

Evan Geller

#8. If you are a fish charging at bait, then it usually doesn't end well.

Amish Tripathi

#9. Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Aldo Leopold

#10. Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

Brian Froud

#11. Goodnight, wife."
"Goodnight, husband.

Colleen Hoover

#12. My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender ... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.

Maria Jeritza

#13. There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.

Kathryn Bigelow

#14. Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful ...

Nicola Barker