Operas Quotes

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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher,… — Peter Ackroyd
In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera,… — Andrea Bocelli
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it… — David Byrne
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. — Colin McGinn
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas… — Henry David Thoreau
I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we… — Jane Wagner
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip,… — Erica Jong
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly… — Northrop Frye
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to… — Omar Epps
I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins. — Parker Posey
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails,… — Julian Fellowes
We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or… — Giuseppe Verdi
The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas. — Brian Swimme
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that. — Method Man
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one… — Giuseppe Verdi
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas… — Emanuel Lasker
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell. — Steven-Elliot Altman

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