#pera

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. ↗

— Edward Appleton

#language #long #mind #opera #sung

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#company #crime #fails #operate #people

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#desperate #faces #got #idea #know

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. ↗

— David Attenborough

#britain #broadcaster #course #government #grant

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#arises #behave #brought #certain #certain way

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues. ↗

— Alan Autry

#around #continues #cooperation #country #federal

In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#death

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#clean #clean up #gun #guns #industry

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin. ↗

— Dave Barry

#admit #better #coin #complain #country

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist