Renata Tebaldi Quotes

#1. Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm ... she had dimples of iron.

Rudolf Bing

#2. I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

Renee Fleming

#3. A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo ...

Russell Brand

#4. My mother was my best friend and confidante.

Renata Tebaldi

#5. I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.

Renata Tebaldi

#6. We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

Michele Bachmann

#7. I find nothing wrong with striving for the impossible. But I find alot wrong with giving up

Scooter Braun

#8. Jesus died to redeem you," she said.
"I never ast him," he muttered.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

Jane Austen

#10. Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Nancy Chodorow

#11. Wasing the where of needing, she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the time of the Origin, and occasionally for government ceremony.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Mark Twain

#13. I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!

Rick Riordan

#14. I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.

Renata Tebaldi

#15. I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

Anthony Weiner

#16. President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.

Tom Daschle

#17. I know America is the country that loved me most.

Renata Tebaldi

#18. I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.

Renata Tebaldi

#19. The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

Steve Jobs

#20. How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you 'Mama,' but 'Renata.'

Renata Tebaldi