Quotes by Playwrights - Page 111

Feeling - what authentic human fun!
Jeff Lindsay
Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be calm and self-centred. If a man takes their cloak, they are to give him their coat, just to show that material things are of no importance. If people abuse them, they are not to answer back. What does it signify? The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection.
Oscar Wilde
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.
George Bernard Shaw
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
Josephine Tey
Existence is a priceless gift and the beauties of nature are the priceless gifts of the existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back.
A.A. Milne
As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
When you smile, it means that your mind smiles; when you cry, it means that your mind cries!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae West
Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
William Shakespeare
You want to go to a place where you never lose anything and you keep gaining many things? Go to the Land Of Literature where you gain new paths, new ideas, new lives, new goals, and new souls!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?
Sarah Ruhl
I grow old … I grow old …t I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.tShall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?tI shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.tI have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.tI do not think that they will sing to me.t I have seen them riding seaward on the wavestCombing the white hair of the waves blown backtWhen the wind blows the water white and black.tWe have lingered in the chambers of the seatBy sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brownt Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
T.S Eliot
Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.
William Shakespeare
You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.
Niall Williams
I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan
Don’t be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer
The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glancesunfailingly twice a day, It is weathered away. On the other side The area at two Is only half as worn, For closed eyes at nightPass without stopping. If there is one who possesses a flat watch evenly worn, It is he who, failing at the start, is running one lap behind. Thus the world is always A lap fast--The world he thinks he sees Has not yet begun. Illusory time, When the hands stand vertically on the dial; Without the bell announcing the raising of the curtain, The play has come to an end.
Kōbō Abe
If a man can say ‘My life is more important than my country,’ that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All I know is a door into the dark
Seamus Heaney
The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!
Sinclair Lewis
He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner. When he was out during the day he often looked forward to these chats, and made notes of things he would like to tell his Mary. During her day, which was given to feminine duties and pleasures, she frequently did the same thing. Between seven and eight in the evening they had delightful conversational opportunities. He picked up her book and glanced it over, he asked her a few questions and answered a few...
Frances Hodgson Burnett
If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer lies in the profound inertia of human thought: when an entire society believes something is impossible, it suppresses, by its very way of life, the evidence that would contradict that belief.
John Mighton
You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn’t matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.
Thea Dorn
As long as there exist summer, we shall love the winter! The day summer disappears from Earth, we shall hate the winter!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor
Frances Hodgson Burnett
If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?
Jean Cocteau
Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
William Shakespeare
If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.
William Shakespeare
As far as I can figure, the way that it works is this: everyone has something that happened to them. The thing that we each carry. And you can see it in people, if you look. See it in the way someone walks, in the way someone takes a compliment, sometimes you can just see it in someone’s eyes. In one moment of desperation, of fear, in one quick moment you can see that thing that happened. Everyone has it. The thing that keeps you up at night, or makes you not trust people, or stops love. The thing that hurts. And to stop it, to stop the hurt, you have to turn it into a story. And not just a story you play over and over for yourself, but a story that you tell. A story’s not a story unless you tell it. And once you tell it, it’s not yours anymore. You give it away. And once you give it away, it’s not something that hurts you anymore, it’s something that helps everyone who hears it. It’s the kind of thing that’s hard to explain. It’s probably best if we just show you how it works.
Daniel MacIvor
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde
At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
Emma Donoghue
O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,
William Shakespeare
You are in some brown study.
John Lyly
Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.
Graham Greene
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
Here's what I love about travel: strangers get a chance to amaze you. Sometimes a single day can bring a blooming surprise, a simple kindness that opens a chink in the brittle shell of your heart and makes you a different person when you go to sleep--more tender less jaded--than you were when you woke up.
Tanya Shaffer
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde
World will be a beautiful place only with beautiful minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
Oscar Wilde
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
Carson McCullers
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.
Arnold Bennett
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.
Marsha Norman
love is blindand lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
William Shakespeare
When will you understand that your childish beliefs mean an absolute nothing in this wild universe! When will you be serious? When will you give up deceiving yourself? When will you stop believing in the tales of old times as if they are true?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever you do or wherever you go in life, after a while everything you did will look like a dream to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
Cormac McCarthy
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
Jean Genet
Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler
Ira Levin
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place."Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.
Frances Hodgson Burnett