Opera Quotes

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The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera. — Josh Lanyon
What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets! — Cassandra Clare
We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost. — Gaston Leroux
Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through… — Alex Garland
I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer, Dolly, my mother,… — Maggie Stiefvater
Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly.… — Ayn Rand
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. — David Henry Hwang
They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hillsâ€”a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight. "Is that it?"… — Gordon Korman
A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full! — Gaston Leroux
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low… — Marian Keyes
Goodness gracious me,â€ exclaimed Alexia, â€œwhat are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and… — Gail Carriger
Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun. — Brian Aldiss
Iâ€™m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.â€ â€“ Sundown — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like. — Jasper Fforde
Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen… — Rick Riordan
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. — Chuck Palahniuk
Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another,… — Anne Rice
I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I donâ€™t know… — Hugh Laurie
Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?â€ â€œIâ€™m not implying. Iâ€™m saying it. — Ilona Andrews
She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the… — Anais Nin

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