#opera

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#art form #become #breathing #breathing thing #form

Opera is given so little attention in the national press. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#given #little #little attention #national #opera

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward. ↗

— Mark Foley

#company #deal #determine #differently #forward

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past. ↗

— Khaleda Zia

#cooperation #effective #factors #mindsets #past

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#amount #certain #control #customary #even

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#cancel #communication #diplomatic #during #even

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#good #in my opinion #lot #making #making money

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#beat #been #divorced #had #how

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#always #better #chinese #chinese food #comes

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#comparison #difference #every #laws #nature