Tebaldi's Quotes

#1. I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.

Maria Callas

#2. 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

#3. You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from you. Nothing is ever the same.

Heraclitus Of Ephesus

#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. No ... " said Professor Quirrell. "That is not why I am here. You have made no effort to hide your dislike for me, Miss Granger. I thank you for that lack of pretense, for I much prefer true hate to false love.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

Rudolf Bing

#8. Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, That the crowd of physicians had killed him.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts.

Christopher Hawke

#10. In an expanding universe, Spencer had said, order was not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#11. People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.

Naoto Fukasawa

#12. Refrigerators are good for keeping homemade moonshine less gross. Freezers are good for keeping rattlesnakes less angry. Garages are good to hide in when your wife finds either.

Jenny Lawson

#13. I can make the stars dance

Selena Gomez

#14. He searched for my gaze and the second he found it, I cracked a smile. "There it is." He palmed his chest again and sighed. "All is right in the world again.

Shelly Crane

#15. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.

Anchee Min

#17. I don't fear anything now.

G. Gordon Liddy

#18. 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

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

Renata Tebaldi

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

Renata Tebaldi

#21. Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

Rumi

#22. 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

#23. Is this different? Does love make lovemaking better? Does Nick feel this holy consummation, this wonder and beauty, this eternity, the way I do? Or is sex simply like this, designed by Nature to fool us all into multiplying?

Beatriz Williams

#24. the truth is true even if no one believes it, and untrue claims are still untrue even if everyone believes them.

Armin Navabi