China Forbes Quotes

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

China Forbes

• Music
• Hope
• Soul
• Opera

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  

  Larry King
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Traffic

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Believe
  • High
  • Law

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Want
  • Hero

• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Injuries

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Original

• The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Man
  • Dog
  • Medical

• I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Up
  • Society
  • College

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Religious

• To Mankind And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • War
  • Hope

• The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It's spelled with two l's, two a's. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L - EN - HAAL spells Gyllenhaal. It's a Swedish name. It's a family heirloom set to music.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Music
  • Family
  • Song

• The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Soul
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Music
  • Money
  • Interests

• Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

  

  China Forbes
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Soul