Marriage Of Figaro Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#3. Lucy: Why do you want me to stay?
Asher: Because I like you.
Lucy: Why do you want me to go?
Asher: Because I like you.

Parker S. Huntington

#4. In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt
if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful.

Tahir Shah

#5. If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus ... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

Mother Teresa

#6. If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

Paul A. Baran

#7. I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

Nadia Giosia

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#9. 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

#10. Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce; the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.

Twyla Tharp

#11. 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

#12. Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.

James Whitcomb Riley