Top 37 Opera Man Quotes
#1. But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.
Jon Lovitz
#2. Miss Blanche Heyward, opera dancer, would have made a superlative drill sergeant if she had just been a man.
Mary Balogh
#3. Art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat
planet Earth
could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama
soap opera with literary trimmings.
Edward Abbey
#5. I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.
Elisabeth Rohm
#6. 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
#8. My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender ... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.
Maria Jeritza
#9. 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
#10. It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Bruce Beresford
#11. He was a man with a tin-ear present who dreamed of a rock-opera future.
Daniel Woodrell
#12. A Man lives off his head.
His head won't see him through.
Inspect your own
What lives on that?
At most, a louse or two ...
Bertolt Brecht
#13. Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.
Arthur Smith
#14. I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.
Ronald Reagan
#15. In our generation there is no agreed-upon framework. All issues are up for grabs. Morality no longer has any broad-based theology upon which to rest its case. We are no longer a 'Christian nation,' not even a 'Judeo-Christian culture.'
F. LaGard Smith
#16. The universe is bigger than anything that can fit into your mind.
Ava Dellaira
#17. Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Moliere
#18. It was the truest fact of her world. She loved everything about this man, his smile, the way he mumbled in his sleep and laughed after a sneeze and sang opera in the shower. She
Kristin Hannah
#19. Where were we a year ago, Bink?" "In Vienna." "In Vienna, swiving opera singers." They shared a moment of silent recollection. "And now you're an earl. A man of responsibility. You'll want a wife.
Alina K. Field
#20. If there's one good thing to be said about opera, it's that it makes a man appreciate all other forms of entertainment so much more.
Mark Lawrence
#21. Strange that I should choose you for the confidante of all this, young lady; passing strange that you should listen to me quietly, as if it were the most usual thing in the world for a man like me to tell stories of his opera - mistress to a quaint, inexperienced girl like you!
Charlotte Bronte
#22. I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair cut or having it messed around with. Hairdressers feel as if they've got to be your shrinks. I just want them to do my hair so I can get out of there.
Erin Wasson
#23. Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.
Jon Gordon
#24. A few days later we went to the opera together to watch my beloved Siegfried. It was a pleasure for me to listen to it beside the man who had become my hero.
Andre Maurois
#25. Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Kenneth Clark
#26. The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.
Barbara Cook
#27. Alone for a few precious seconds, he drew in a deep breath. He stood on a ruined street in a ruined city. Destruction stretched for kilometers in every direction, all caused by a single man for whom vengeance had devolved into madness.
G.S. Jennsen
#28. I remember watching the Three Tenors at the World Cup in 1990, and it was amazing. They made opera accessible to the man in the street.
Anton Du Beke
#29. When a man", continued Raoul,"adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections.."
"The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?
Gaston Leroux
#30. I looked at the hit man who was watching us closely and told him, "Don't think in the crazy-ass soap opera that is my life that I've forgotten about you. Or you," I said to Rosie.
Kristen Ashley
#31. The captain would ... turn off the conversation, like a consummate man of the world, to some topic of general interest, such as the Opera, the Prince's last ball at Carlton House, or the weather - that blessing to society.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#32. Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.
Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his blade. "Jude Winslow, I presume.
G.S. Jennsen
#33. What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man.
Terry Pratchett
#34. He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]
Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
#35. The Three Oddest Words
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.
Wislawa Szymborska
#36. I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.
Ruskin Bond
#37. Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera."
Jeff Britting
