Gaston Leroux Quotes

We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.

Gaston Leroux

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• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Know

• Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • House
  • Play
  • Reggae

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Best

• I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Live
  • Walking
  • Hill

• Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Walking
  • Down
  • Portrait

• I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Know
  • Better

• I auditioned 5-6 times for 'Dangal.' I was just waiting for the final call, as there were about 15-16 girls who auditioned for the role.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Waiting
  • Call
  • Final

• And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Time
  • Read
  • Newsweek

• Youth has no age.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Birthday

• There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Life
  • May
  • Guy

• If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Companies
  • Less

• But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Small

• Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Desire

• I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Sick
  • Opera
  • Soap

• And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Think
  • Singing
  • Opera

• And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Religion
  • Ghost
  • Devotion

• He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Ghost
  • My Mind
  • Sketching

• Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Father
  • Soul
  • Ghost

• We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.

  

  Gaston Leroux
  • Ghost
  • Touch
  • Opera