The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

Until you become a woman you don't know the things that come with being a woman.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I appreciate the details.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

I cant do it never yet accomplished anything. I will try has performed miracles.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

God is like a barber dont expect him to give you a haircut you must first get at his barbershop.

Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.