Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
Strange how the older generations can't program a VCR if their life depended on it, but they managed to operate the climate contol system of their 1958 Ramblers, which consisted of six unmarked knobs, one labeled "AirFloMatic" in unreadable cursive script, and four levers underneath the dash, which you had to turn, then pull.
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
Room service? Send up a larger room." [A Night at the Opera]
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.