Opera Quotes

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Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too… — Gaston Leroux
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin… — Ann Patchett
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the… — Henry Miller
...For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas... — Ally Carter
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into… — Edith Wharton
In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend Iâ€™m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters… — David Sedaris
Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and,… — Terry Pratchett
excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm… — Leo Tolstoy
Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of… — Gaston Leroux
And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not… — Terry Pratchett
For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human.… — Charlaine Harris
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would… — Brandon Mull
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers,… — Gaston Leroux
How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of… — Terry Pratchett
Life is an X-rated soap opera. — John Irving
I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I… — John Green
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all. — Laurell K. Hamilton
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them? — Victor Borge

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