#opera

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#architecture #art #autonomy #because #cannot

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana. ↗

— Paul Tagliabue

#develop #focus #having #louisiana #model

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#bugged #conversations #i #just #operate

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#being #bunch #campaigning #convention #corps

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#cases #committee #congress #exploitation #human

If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#begin #cooperation #direction #move #our

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#african american #american #classical #classical music #contract

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#i #i can #opera #rock #songs

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#house #music #opera

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

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#composer #feels #good #intently #must