Ghena Dimitrova - Official web site of the famous Bulgarian-born singer.
Vesselina Kasarova - Provides information on the great Bulgarian mezzo-soprano
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Opera Singers Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Opera Singers
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Opera Singers Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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-- Isaac Asimov The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Opera Singers
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Mahatma Gandhi Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Opera Singers I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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- Sir Winston Churchill Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Opera Singers
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Opera Singers "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
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-- George Bernard Shaw Opera Singers
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Opera Singers "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Opera Singers
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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-- Mark Twain Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Opera Singers
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Opera Singers "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
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-- Johann Sebastian Bach Opera Singers
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Opera Singers "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
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-- William Jennings Bryant I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Opera Singers
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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really Opera Singers Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Opera Singers
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Opera Singers If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
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-- Isadora Duncan "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Opera Singers
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Opera Singers "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Opera Singers
