Callas Quotes

When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing. ~ Maria Callas

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was. ~ Maria Callas

Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. ~ Maria Callas

[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets. ~ Maria Callas

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower - suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel! ~ Maria Callas

When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size. ~ Harold C. Schonberg

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. ~ Maria Callas

What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act on stage, all you have to do is listen to the music. The composer has already seen to that." If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with your ears - and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also - you will find every gesture there. And it is all true, you know. ~ Maria Callas

Only when I was singing did I feel loved. ~ Maria Callas

He watched with an attentiveness both polite and flattering as Maura scraped her cards up from the sofa cushions. He leaned to pick up one she had missed.
"This fellow looks unhappy," he observed. The art depicted a man stuck with ten swords. The victim lay on his face, as most people did after being stuck with ten swords.
"That's a fellow after Calla's done with him," Maura said. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

Love is so much better when you're not married. ~ Maria Callas

I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.' ~ Larry The Cable Guy

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage. ~ Maria Callas

I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best, ~ Maria Callas

If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt ... retire? ~ Maria Callas

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. ~ Maria Callas

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. ~ Maria Callas

I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing. ~ Fernando Pessoa

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis. ~ Maria Callas

The calla lilies are in bloom again. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking. ~ Maria Callas

Whatever it was, Calla's imagination had waked up from a long sleep, and these days she had the feeling that magic and miracles might be hovering in the air all around, waiting to happen. She wasn't a great believer in such things, but she didn't push the thought away. ~ Jenny Wingfield

Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand. ~ Maria Callas

The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die."
"Ah," said Calla, in a very, very knowing way. "Now I see."
"Don't psychoanalyse me," her mother said.
"I already have. And I say again, 'ah'. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming. ~ Maria Callas

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. ~ Maria Callas

My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama. ~ Maria Callas

Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have. ~ Rudolf Bing

If someone is robbing us, come back after buisness hours! Calla's voice came from upstairs. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

When does it happen?"
"It already has," Calla replied. Her eyes opened and fixed on Blue. "And it hasn't yet. Time' circular, chicken. We use the same parts of it over and over. Some of us more than others. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations - you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you? ~ Maria Callas

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. ~ Maria Callas

First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis. ~ Maria Callas

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. ~ Maria Callas

Adam and Ronan lurked in the hall, eavesdropping, too cowardly to face Calla's wrath. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

I love to sing, and I warm up to Maria Callas. ~ Cybill Shepherd

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women. ~ Maria Callas

When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band. ~ Patti Smith

I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice. ~ Maria Callas

- Who would carry the bell canto
- Of course Montserrat Caballe ~ Maria Callas

In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas. ~ Terrence McNally

Love is so much better when you are not married. ~ Maria Callas

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over. ~ Maria Callas

Oh gods, Jean. Take a false name wherever we end up. Tavrin Callas is good. Let the bastard pop up all over the place. ~ Scott Lynch

Despite all the commotion, and to Calla's surprise, Guthrie kissed her. His lips were warm and masculine and tasted like wassail. Cinnamon, apple cider, and oranges. She licked his mouth to enjoy more of the taste and he licked hers back, smiling. then he deepened the kiss.
Oh my God! She hadn't felt this naughty in forever! The men were going to move the tree soon, and here she and Guthrie would be. Kissing. In front of several members of his pack. She pushed her arms through the branches, trying to wrap them around his neck. She tangled her tongue with his, his cock hardening against her belly, and she felt deliciously wicked hidden beneath the half-decorated tree. ~ Terry Spear