Quotes by Playwrights - Page 12

Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead
Warren Adler
Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
you are going to be sent home....I 'm glad of it but where's HOME ?
Frances Hodgson Burnett
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
William Shakespeare
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
Howard Zinn
There's some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the heavens lookWith an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,I am not prone to weeping, as our sexCommonly are; the want of which vain dewPerchance shall dry your pities: but I haveThat honourable grief lodged here which burnsWorse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,With thoughts so qualified as your charitiesShall best instruct you, measure me; and soThe king's will be perform'd!
William Shakespeare
I LOVE living, I have some problems with my LIFE, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
Neil Simon
Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
W Somerset Maugham
Man’s primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.
T.S Eliot
And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.
Oliver Goldsmith
If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.
Cormac McCarthy
If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Fortune befriends the bold.
John Dryden
Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
i found god in myself& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely
Ntozake Shange
Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Ghosts!—They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.
Arthur Schnitzler
Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
William Saroyan
Environmental pollution is not only humanity’s treason to humanity but also a treason to all other living creatures on earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.
Eve Ensler
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
Cormac McCarthy
Whom, then, to love? Whom to believe?Who is the only one that won't betray us?Who measures all deeds, all speechesobligingly by our own foot rule?Who does not sow slander about us?Who coddles us with care?To whom our vice is not so bad?Who never bores us?Unlike a futile phantom-seekerwho wastes effort in vain-love your own self,my honorworthy reader.A worthy object! Nothingmore amiable surely exists.
Alexander Pushkin
In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I’m not just a face, or a body. I’m a Havisham.
Ronald Frame
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Arnold Bennett
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
Seamus Heaney
There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Most European nations identify themselves with eagles or lions, with some predator or creature of the air, ascendant and belligerent. I would like to visit the country which adopts the groundhog as its mascot, somewhere peaceful, some place that curls against the secrets of the earth, a little Belgium of the imagination, tables piled high with cakes, the Sunday bells ringing (not too loudly), the light falling on rolling hillocks studded with salad greens.
David Brendan Hopes
I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.
Tom Stoppard
Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams
Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.
James Kirkwood Jr.
What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?
Kathy Acker
My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.t 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.t 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?t 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.
T.S Eliot
I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.
Tennessee Williams
Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear
Daphne du Maurier
And what I thought most about was luxury. I had never realised before that it is more than just having things; it makes the very air feel different. And I felt different, breathing the air: relaxed, lazy, still sad but with the edge taken off the sadness. Perhaps the effect wears off in time, or perhaps you don't notice it if you are born to it, but it does seem to me that the climate of richness must always be a little dulling to the senses. Perhaps it takes the edge off joy as well as off sorrow.
Dodie Smith
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as it was he stood there a long time. The color of it moved something in him long forgotten. Make a list. Recite a litany. Remember.
Cormac McCarthy
Fortune’s a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop.
John Webster
You can never know enough about your characters
W Somerset Maugham
In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim.You promised not to do that, the boy said.What?You know what, Papa.He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back.I have to watch you all the time, the boy said.
Cormac McCarthy
He who has lived and thought can neverHelp in his soul despising men,He who has felt will be foreverHaunted by days he can’t regain.For him there are no more enchantments,Him does the serpent of remembrance,Him does repentance always gnaw.All this will frequently affordA great delight to conversations.
Alexander Pushkin
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
Jean Cocteau
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
William Nicholson
The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.
Samuel Beckett
People often make very bad mistakes because people often don’t ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S Eliot
Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.
Samuel Beckett
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,Yet Grace must still look so.
William Shakespeare
It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra