Fosser, Lars - Young Danish/Norwegian opera singer. Personal homepage with audio files and links.
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Opera In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Opera
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Opera 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 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Opera
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Opera "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Opera
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Opera Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Opera
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Opera The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Opera
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Opera An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Opera
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Opera "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Opera
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Opera Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Opera
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Opera Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Opera
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Opera "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Opera
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Opera "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Opera
