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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• 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 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

• 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

• I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Family
  • Love

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

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Free Press

• The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Hate
  • Party
  • Slavery

• 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

• 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Tiger

• 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

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Want
  • Meaningful

• My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Music
  • Play
  • Instrument

• 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'm a big Clive Owen fan.

  

  Kevin Connolly

• I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • College
  • Mom

• I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Remember

• A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• 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