Maria 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A strange night, he thought. Somewhere now there is shooting and men are being hunted and imprisoned and tortured and murdered, some corner of a peaceful world is being trampled upon, and one knows it, helplessly, and life buzzes on in the bright bistros of the city, no one cares, and people go calmly to sleep, and I am sitting here with a woman between pale chrysanthemums and a bottle of calvados, and the shadow of love rises, trembling, lonesome, strange and sad, it too an exile from the safe gardens of the past, shy and wild and quick as if it had no right ~ Erich Maria Remarque

The second decade of the twenty-first century - just 150 years after Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Karl-Maria Kurtbeny, early LGBT rights theorists, ignited the idea of same-sex freedom in 1868 - we find ourselves in a heady, global maelstrom of unimaginable liberation and continued stark oppression. ~ Michael Bronski

We're commuter wives. These are our commuter lives. We're capable of carrying alcoholic husbands from the kitchen to the bathroom in a fireman's grip. Between trains, we train to fight with enemies we haven't met yet, battling against punching bags, leaping like the world is made of stone walls and we're storming them.
There's another version of commuting of course, as in to commute a sentence.
This is our sentence, these suburbs, the train that does not stretch to meet them ~ Maria Dahvana Headley

I think Channel One was very integral in my career. ~ Maria Menounos

Knife fighting was his forte, but he wouldn't have time to have a proper match. Pity. ~ Maria V. Snyder

I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari countered. "Remember your campaign against sand?"
"Sand! Horrid little stuff. Gets everywhere. I had a perfectly good argue
"
"Janco." Ari's voice rumbled deep in his throat.
In a heartbeat, Janco switched gears. "Well, this blood magic sounds worse than sand. ~ Maria V. Snyder

What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes. ~ Maria Shriver

I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did. ~ Carmen Maria Machado

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost. ~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

But is the primary law of this world, where the old rule the young, that one must serve one's time. It is no question of ability. Else what would become of old dodderers who cling to their power? ~ Erich Maria Remarque

You know you're a real grown-up when nothing but Oreos is black and white. ~ Maria Murnane

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again. ~ Maria Shriver

Get a degree in mechanical engineering, Hiro. Get a pilot's license, Hiro. Learn meditation and hypnosis, Hiro. Slip your roommate out of prison, Hiro. Drive thousands of clones and humans around in space, Hiro. Sit on your butt for four hundred years, Hiro.'
That's what they told me. Not once did they say, Get shot and chased and stabbed by crazed crewmates, Hiro!"
"To be fair, you were one of the people doing the chasing, crazed at the time too," Maria said.
"Semantics," he said. ~ Mur Lafferty

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces. ~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. ~ Maria Montessori

Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. ~ Maria Shriver

It brings a lump into the throat to see how they go over, and run and fall. A man would like to spank them, they are so stupid, and to take them by the arm and lead them away from here where they have no business to be. They wear grey coats and trousers and boots, but for most of them the uniform is far too big, it hangs on their limbs, their shoulders are too narrow, their bodies too slight; no uniform was ever made to these childish measurements. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work. ~ Maria Kang

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Help when you can; do everything then - but when you can no longer do anything, forget it! Turn away! Pull yourself together. Compassion is meant for quiet times. Not when life is at stake. Bury the dead and devour life! You'll still need it. Mourning is one thing, facts are another. One doesn't mourn less when one sees the facts and accepts them. That is how one survives. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true. ~ Ashley Wagner

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me. ~ Maria Sharapova

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older. ~ Maria Bello

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag. ~ Maria Sharapova

A man is courageous
only when he is also afraid. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

My day had already had a good dose of bitterness, and I preferred to keep it from getting any sadder. ~ Maria Duenas

Where otherwise words were, flow discoveries, freed all surprised out of the fruit's flesh. RAINER MARIA RILKE ~ Gayle Brandeis

As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'. ~ Jeannine Atkins

For your sake poets sequester themselves,
gather images to churn the mind,
journey forth, ripening with metaphor,
and all their lives they are so alone...

And painters paint their pictures only
that the world, so transient as you made it,
can be given back to you,
to last forever.

All becomes eternal. See: In the Mona Lisa
some woman has long since ripened like wine,
and the enduring feminine is held there
through all the ages.

Those who create are like you.
They long for the eternal.
They say, Stone, be forever!
And that means: be yours.

And lovers also gather your inheritance.
They are the poets of one brief hour.
They kiss an expressionless mouth into a smile
as if creating it anew, more beautiful.

Awakening desire, they make a place
where pain can enter;
that's how growing happens.
They bring suffering along with their laughter,
and longings that had slept and now awaken
to weep in a stranger's arms. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

See what has become of us. As far as I know, only the old Greeks had gods of drinking and the joy of life: Bacchus and Dionysus. Instead of that we have Freud, inferiority complexes and the psychoanalysis. We're afraid of the too great words in love and not afraid of much too great words in politics. A sorry generation! ~ Erich Maria Remarque

One of the effects of being crazily, obsessively in love is that it dulls your senses, your capacity for perception, till you no longer notice what is happening around you. ~ Maria Duenas

It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch.
- Valek to Yelena ~ Maria V. Snyder