Top 100 Quotes About Gaston
#1. Are you going to let me go?" Jack asked quietly.
"I'm thinking about it."
"So Gaston gets let go but I don't?"
"I like him more than I like you.
Ilona Andrews
#2. The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.
Hugh Jackman
#3. I need you to get down there, open the stalls inside, and panic the horses."
" 'Panic'?" Gaston asked.
"Smile at them or something.
Ilona Andrews
#4. Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#5. Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but mind conceived in the Kantian sense. The knowledge of nature is symbolic, and there is no necessary connection between the phenomena and our fictions.
Fulton J. Sheen
#6. Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.
Gaston Leroux
#7. No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston ... Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
#9. As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back.
Gaston Leroux
#10. No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think
that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!
Gaston Leroux
#11. It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
Gaston Bachelard
#12. The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
Gaston Bachelard
#13. Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.
Gaston Rebuffat
#14. We cannot say what reality is, only what it seems like to us.
Gaston Bachelard
#15. The voice without a body went on singing, and certainly Raoul had never in his life heard anything more absolutely and heroically sweet, more gloriously insidious, more powerful.
Gaston Leroux
#16. Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.
Gaston Leroux
#17. The lock doesn't exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold.
Gaston Bachelard
#19. If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
Gaston Bachelard
#20. Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!
Gaston Bachelard
#21. Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
Gaston Caperton
#22. M. Richard bowed ... to nobody; bent his back ... before nobody; and walked backward ... before nobody ... And, a few steps behind him, M. Moncharmin did the same thing
Gaston Leroux
#23. He looked up in despair at the starry sky, he struck his burning chest with his fist; he loved and he was not loved!
Gaston Leroux
#24. Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
Gaston Bachelard
#25. The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
Gaston Bachelard
#26. It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
Gaston Bachelard
#27. No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.
Gaston Leroux
#28. One after the other, there came a series of incidents so curious and so inexplicable that the very shrewdest people began to feel uneasy.
Gaston Leroux
#29. It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
Gaston Bachelard
#30. Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
#33. But you would have lots of fun with me. For instance, I am the the greatest ventriloquist that ever lived, I am the first ventriloquist in the world!
Gaston Leroux
#34. Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard
#35. You want the secret off my succes; my recipe? I have always brought the same care to making an adventure novel, a serialized novel, that others would bring to the making of a poem. My ambition was to raise the level of this much maligned genre.
Gaston Leroux
#36. There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
Gaston Bachelard
#37. May one ask at least to what darkness you are returning? ... For what hell are you leaving, mysterious lady ... or for what paradise?
Gaston Leroux
#38. Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.
Gaston Leroux
#39. Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
A.G. Gaston
#40. Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
Gaston Bachelard
#41. Oh, my betrothed of a day, if I did not love you, I would not give
you my lips! Take them, for the first time and the last.
Gaston Leroux
#42. I give you back your liberty, Christine, on condition that this ring is always on your finger. As long as you keep it, you will be protected against all danger and Erik will remain your friend. But woe to you if you ever part with it, for Erik will have his revenge!
Gaston Leroux
#43. Nobody could see the ghost in his box, but everybody could hear him.
Gaston Leroux
#44. Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
Gaston Bachelard
#45. I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!
Gaston Leroux
#46. Never spit in a lion's face when you've got your hand in his mouth.
A.G. Gaston
#47. None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.
Gaston Leroux
#48. The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.
Gaston Bachelard
#50. The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
Gaston Bachelard
#51. I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!
Gaston Leroux
#52. Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
Gaston Bachelard
#53. A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.
Gaston Bachelard
#54. To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Gaston Bachelard
#55. Poor, unhappy Erik! Should we pity him? Should we curse him? He asked only to be someone like everyone else. But he was too ugly. . . Why did God make a man as ugly as that?
Gaston Leroux
#56. By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
Gaston Bachelard
#57. The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard
#58. By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology."
Gaston Bachelard
#60. Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event
Gaston Bachelard
#61. Christine, we will go from here together or die together. ~ Raoul
Gaston Leroux
#62. The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly, under the mighty protection of Apollo, who, with a great bronze gesture, lifted his huge lyre to the heart of a crimson sky.
Gaston Leroux
#63. Why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?
Gaston Leroux
#64. Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life ... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
Gaston Bachelard
#65. 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
#66. Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.
Gaston Bachelard
#67. Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
Gaston Bachelard
#68. Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
Gaston Bachelard
#69. In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
Gaston Bachelard
#70. Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
Gaston Bachelard
#71. For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
Gaston Bachelard
#72. While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.
Gaston Leroux
#73. Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
#75. So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard
#76. So Mauclair takes snuff, does he?" he asked carelessly. "'Yes, Mr. Commissary....Look, there is his snuff-box on that little shelf....Oh! he's a great snuff-taker!" "So am I," said Mifroid and put the snuff-box in his pocket.
Gaston Leroux
#77. To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston Bachelard
#78. Modifying one's vocabulary to avoid embarrassment is a universal human behaviour.
Gaston Dorren
#79. If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.
Gaston Leroux
#80. To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
Gaston Bachelard
#81. Surely, if his heart continued to make such a noise, they would hear it inside, they would open the door and the young man would be turned away in disgrace.
Gaston Leroux
#83. Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.
Gaston Leroux
#84. Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.
Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis
#85. How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.
Gaston Bachelard
#86. One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard
#87. There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!
Gaston Bachelard
#88. Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest
Gaston Leroux
#89. In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?
Gaston Bachelard
#90. There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.
Gaston Leroux
#91. Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy ... aerial joy is freedom.
Gaston Bachelard
#92. In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
Gaston Bachelard
#93. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
Gaston Bachelard
#94. None will ever be true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows ...
Gaston Leroux
#95. For several months, there had been nothing discussed at the Opera but this ghost in dress-clothes who stalked about the building, from top to bottom,
Gaston Leroux
#96. I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears ... and she did not run away! ... and she did not die! ... She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer.
Gaston Leroux
#97. All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
Gaston Bachelard
#98. The girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks
and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a
trembling voice: It's the ghost!
Gaston Leroux
#99. I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf
Gaston Leroux
#100. All important words, all the words marked for grandeur by a poet, are keys to the universe, to the dual universe of the Cosmos and the depths of the human spirit.
Gaston Bachelard
