Melba Quotes

#1. He was the yin to my yang, the frick to my frack, the melba toast to my Chex.

Alice Clayton

#2. For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

Alanis Morissette

#3. Mr. Harris had three boxes of Melba toast, a can of smoked oysters, a wheel of Gouda cheese, two bunches of grapes, a package of smoked salmon, a can of sardines, a bottle of sparkling grape juice and a can of cocktail weenies in his pants. I simply ask you to please use common sense. Thank you.

N.M. Silber

#4. There are no souls, Melba thought with a touch of pity. We are bags of meat with a little electricity running through them. No ghosts, no spirits, no souls. The only thing that survives is the story people tell about you.

James S.A. Corey

#5. I sat evaluating
myself.

I decided
to lie down.

Melba Colgrove

#6. Always sing below your potential.

Nellie Melba

#7. If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

George Orwell

#8. What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

Nellie Melba

#9. Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

Nellie Melba

#10. There are still hundreds of question marks to be answered

Jimmy Armfield

#11. Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

Charles Sturt

#12. The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Nellie Melba

#13. You won't be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don't worry! It's a good sign!

Nellie Melba

#14. I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

George Michael

#15. I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because its over used or inappropriately used. I think in this case it informs the story.

Claire Danes

#16. There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

Nellie Melba

#17. If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

Nellie Melba

#18. If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Nellie Melba

#19. Do everything yourself.

Nellie Melba

#20. The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences.

Melba Pattillo Beals

#21. It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

Nellie Melba

#23. My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'

Christian Camargo

#24. I kept my head down but my thoughts moving.

Alexandra Bracken