Operetta Quotes

#1. The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike.

Marsden Hartley

#2. Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.

Rachel Bloom

#3. An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

Gustav Mahler

#4. As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

W.S. Gilbert

#5. I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

Clare Bowen

#6. Don't get me wrong - I was not a Nazi, and in my eyes Hitler seemed like some absurd character in an operetta. But, it would have been almost impossible not to be infected by the optimism about the future, which was rife among ordinary people in Hamburg. - Henrik Vanger

Stieg Larsson

#7. Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?

Richie Norton

#9. Dare to dream of your great success.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#10. What is magic but what we don't yet understand

Mary E. Pearson

#11. I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

Jeremy Piven

#12. I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

Gary Snyder

#13. Upon examination of a people's history, beware the story teller's motives.

T.F. Hodge

#14. I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

Rachel Hunter

#15. I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation.

Ben Carson

#16. You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.

George Harrison