Gaston Quotes

10 quotes from 8 authors

Ever notice how the name Gaston links a phenomenologist’s take on intimacy with a Black business titan’s legacy? In ten brief quotes you’ll see Bachelard’s musings on closeness and Arthur G. Gaston’s role in American enterprise. If you want more, check out philosophy and African American entrepreneurship pages.

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Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

Gaston Leroux

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“That's all right," she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine." Four pairs of eyes looked at her…

Ilona Andrews

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The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was Beauty and the Beast. I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights,…

Hugh Jackman

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No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a…

Earl G. Graves, Sr

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Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. "Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds." "Um..." Gaston looked at him. "No he…

Ilona Andrews

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Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but…

Fulton J. Sheen

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A Shadowhunter I believe you know send for me—Tatiana Blackthorn? The lady used to be a Lightwood, did she not?" Magnus turned…

Cassandra Clare

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The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark…

Ilona Andrews

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Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral…

Mark Doty

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