Kiri Quotes

#1. Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call "marry-kiri".Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. I am a knight of Solamnia. I am the hand of Paladine, of Kiri-Jolith and of Habbakuk on this world. You are on Krynn. You are mine, Queen of Darkness.

Richard A. Knaak

#3. The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

S.J Perelman

#4. Unless a miracle saves us,' Khushwant Singh writes, 'the country will break up. It will not be Pakistan or any other foreign power that will destroy us; we will commit hara-kiri.

Khushwant Singh

#5. My children are my children. There's no doubt about that at all. They're very strong towards me, very protective, and I towards them. It works both ways.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#6. My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#7. I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#8. We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#9. I think that the reason why 'Goats' is called 'Goats' is because you can't give direction to goats. They do what they want. That's the point of this film.

Graham Phillips

#10. I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#11. I have no great fondness for the universe, but I do live there

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#12. I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#13. the virtual is not that which is deprived of existence, but that which possesses the potential, or force of developing into actual existence

Kiri Miller

#14. When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#15. I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#16. I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#17. I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#18. I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#19. When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#20. I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#21. The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#22. I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#23. I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#24. It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

Cynthia Lewis

#25. Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#26. A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

Elisabeth Elliot

#27. My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

Ai Weiwei