#pera

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#clinic #different #different levels #i #levels

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#desperate #hunger #i #know #like

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#black #black magic #casual #curses #effective

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hurricane #loves #middle #middle age #opera

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#certain point #cooler #crowd #desperately #fit

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#medical #medicine #never #novels #operation

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ↗

— James Callaghan

#experience #firm #however #incapable #intellect

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. ↗

— Maria Callas

#becomes #before #begins #come #curtain

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#color #difference #expect #go #hear

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#intelligible #means #needed #painter #public