Beverly Sills Quotes (20 Quotes)


    A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

    Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

    There are no short cuts to anywhere worth going.

    Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

    In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.


    So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

    It was a large voice, and she was a little girl. You know, we were Mutt and Jeff onstage.

    I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.


    I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around living becomes the act of giving.

    Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

    There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

    My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

    My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

    Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

    There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

    You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

    A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

    I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

    You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!


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