Maria Callas Quotes

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Maria Callas

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• Ears

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Character
  • Play
  • Doubt

• One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Free Press

• I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • People
  • Good
  • Actor

• I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Angry
  • Brothers

• In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Revolution
  • Scenes
  • Romanticizing

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Love

• True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Forever

• Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Law
  • Myself

• Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Hate
  • Moments
  • Myself

• My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Skill

• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Forever

• We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Nature
  • Desire

• If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Kids
  • Mom

• 'Fast And Furious 7' was quite random. I remember that it was the first holiday that I took in the entire year. I was in Mussoorie for two days with my friends when I got a call from my international PRs asking me to audition for 'Fast And Furious 7.'

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Holiday

• Thor is a god who's lived in Asgard most all his life, but I think he still has a sense of awe and wonder about the place. I want us, as readers, to have that same sense of awe whenever we see, finally see, the golden spires of Realm Eternal.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Life
  • God
  • Wonder

• I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

  

  Avicii
  • Music
  • Awesome

• I've always loved listening to music on my own, but there's another side of me that is just fascinated by... like Goa trance, for example - just a rave on a beach in India, you know? Where there's someone that's spinning the music, and it's just this free-flowing, continuous energy.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music
  • Free
  • Energy

• I've always had influences from all over the place, like Mr. Bungle and Primus. As a band, we try not to focus too much on where it's coming from, because we're always listening to music.

  

  Johnny Christ
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Band

• When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Agree