I never share credit or desserts.
BEVERLY SILLSI never share credit or desserts.
BEVERLY SILLSEverything 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.
BEVERLY SILLSMy 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.
BEVERLY SILLSArt is the signature of civilizations.
BEVERLY SILLSThere is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
BEVERLY SILLSThere is no short cut to a place worth going.
BEVERLY SILLSWhy let one high C ruin your whole evening?
BEVERLY SILLSI think it is! I don’t feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
BEVERLY SILLSWhen you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
BEVERLY SILLSAs soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It’s become a family ritual.
BEVERLY SILLSThe last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
BEVERLY SILLSWhen you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
BEVERLY SILLSOpera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
BEVERLY SILLSA 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.
BEVERLY SILLSThere are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
BEVERLY SILLSMy 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.
BEVERLY SILLS