Menotti Opera Quotes

#1. I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of some service to its people and their cause - that is what brought me from beyond the seas, from America.

Ameen Rihani

#2. When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. But Vikram had seen through every facet, holding me against the light as if I truly were translucent, and instead of making me feel as if I had been looked through and found wanting, I felt . . . seen.

Roshani Chokshi

#4. Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#5. Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#6. Hope keeps us alive.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Thomas A Kempis

#8. I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.

Sarah Palin

#9. It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#10. It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

John C. Danforth

#11. I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#12. loved my wife. Paige was part of my past, obviously part of Jack's present.

Carolyn Arnold

#13. And all for love, and nothing for reward.

Edmund Spenser

#14. The Starship Enterprise is not a collection of motion picture sets or a model used in visual effects. It is a very real vehicle; one designed for storytelling.

Rick Sternbach

#15. Constantly travelling means I don't always get to eat well - so it's probably a good idea for me to do some exercise.

Eliza Doolittle