I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't know whether or not I will keep my word, but my men can tell you that I always do;" whereupon my cow-punchers, hunters, and miners solemnly nodded their heads and commented in chorus, exactly as if in a comic opera, "He always does; he always does! Theodore Roosevelt
None of us can choose where we shall love...
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Susan Kay
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
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Robert Benchley
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
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David Markson
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
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Victor Borge
Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret...
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E.a. Bucchianeri
More Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred...
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
