Lotte Lehmann Quotes

#1. You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
Lotte Lehmann

Lotte Lehmann

#2. The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

Joe Biden

#3. Paths are made by walking" (anonymous)

Janet Garber

#4. Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."
When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.

David Sedaris

#5. Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.

Chris Cleave

#6. What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said

Nora Ephron

#7. Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

Lotte Lehmann

#8. [To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Lotte Lehmann

#9. But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

Lotte Lehmann

#10. The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

Megan Chance

#11. I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

Lotte Lehmann

#12. The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Lotte Lehmann

#13. Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#14. I want to live. I want to live life with all it's emotions, all it's experiences, I don't want to miss anyhting. But I feel like I will.

M. Leighton

#15. For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony ...

Lotte Lehmann

#16. I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.

J. B. Smoove