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I like it [The Bible] as a book. Just like I like "The Cat In The Hat" – Marilyn Manson
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. – Charles De Gaulle
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. – William Shakespeare
"Home is where you wear your hat. – Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. – P. J. O'Rourke
At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time. – Woody Allen
Be not ashamed of thy virtues honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. – Ben Jonson
Bed is the poor man's opera. – Italian Proverb
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one. – Hannah Moore
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. – Hannah More, 1775
He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return! – Dr. Jose P. Rizal
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. – Gioacchino Rosini
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. – Sir Edward Appleton
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. – Victor Hugo
I think that a hat which has a little cannon that fires and then goes back inside the hat is at least a decade away. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes I bet you can really see it in those genitals. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera. – Israel Zangwill
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. – Woody Allen
It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. – Barbara Hall
Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads. – Nikolaus Lenus
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. – W. H. Auden
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. – H. L. Mencken
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. – Ed Gardner
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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