Quotes by Playwrights - Page 140

It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.
Rachel Joyce
Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps and the cracks. Because that was where life really happened, when you were brave enough to free-fall.
Rachel Joyce
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde
I hate parties.And a wedding is the biggest party of all.All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them.Then I have to greet them.
Sarah Ruhl
[She had] a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and she often found, at the end, only a trackless waste from which she had to retrace her steps painfully. But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and porphyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.
Edna Ferber
One face of the cloud sees the sun, other face of the cloud sees the darkness! To survive in this universe, you must do the same! See the sun, see the darkness! Enjoy the life, but prepare for the worst as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past.If all time is eternally presentAll time is unredeemable.What might have been is an abstractionRemaining a perpetual possibilityOnly in a world of speculation.What might have been and what has beenPoint to one end, which is always present.
T.S Eliot
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
Jules Verne
Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage.
William Shakespeare
Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel.
Betty Smith
Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!
Yukio Mishima
It takes very little to govern good people.
Cormac McCarthy
You know you may feel very sad like a child whose toy is broken; but then you know sun rises, life continues and you start laughing again!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.
Mehmet Murat ildan
She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather
Henrik Ibsen
Sweets to the sweet farewell!
William Shakespeare
Every why hath a wherefore.
William Shakespeare
The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
Euripides
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh
Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II
John Galsworthy
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.
William Shakespeare
It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at moments such as these no road through a wood, no stretch of shore, that can bring me comfort. The beauty of these things can no longer at such moments make up to me at all for the ugliness of man, his cruelty, his greed, his lying face.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
That’s what friends are for,” Sheba
Ronald Frame
Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.
Franz Werfel
O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.- Romeo -
William Shakespeare
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.
Oscar Wilde
Blessed are those who encounter a mystery in their lives because they obtain a big opportunity to live the great joy of solving puzzles!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.
Ben Elton
One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have some previous association for us; with the result that our thought is already shaped along certain lines before we have begun to follow it out. Again, a word may have various meanings, and our use of it in one sense may deceive our readers (or even ourselves) into supposing that we were using it in some other sense.
A.A. Milne
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.
Cormac McCarthy
Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.
Eoin Colfer
He watched him stoke the flames, God's own firedrake. The sparks rushed upward and died in the starless dark. Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.
Cormac McCarthy
And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.
Christopher Marlowe
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
Oscar Wilde
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
David Mamet
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
VespersLittle Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,Droops on the little hands little gold head.Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.God bless Mummy. I know that's right.Wasn't it fun in the bath tonight?The cold's so cold, and the hot's so hot.Oh! God bless Daddy -- I quite forgot.If I open my fingers a little bit more,I can see Nanny's dressing-gown on the door.It's a beautiful blue, but it hasn't a hood.Oh! God bless Nanny and make her good.Mine has a hood, and I lie in bed,And pull the hood right over my head,And I shut my eyes, and I curl up small,And nobody knows that I'm there at all.Oh! Thank you, God, for a lovely day.And what was the other I had to say?I said "Bless Daddy," so what can it be?Oh! Now I remember. God bless Me.Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed.Droops on the little hands little gold head.Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.
A.A. Milne
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
Eugene O'Neill
When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Euripides
When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We don’t give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility Young people hereabouts unbridled now Just want.
Molière
History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.
Howard Zinn
You will find angels everywhere if you just stop looking for a supernatural being with feathered wings. When you see the sunshine through the clouds in a cold day, there the angel is! Anything good, anything useful, anything which gives you peace, they are all real angels! Look around you, you will see thousands of angels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Artemis: "Right, brothers. Onward. Imagine yourself seated at a cafe in Montmartre."Myles: "In Paris."Artemis: "Yes, Paris. And try as you will, you cannot attract the waiter's attention. What do you do?"Beckett: "Umm...tell Butler to jump-jump-jump on his head?"Myles: "I agree with simple-toon."Artemis: "No! You simply raise one finger and say clearly 'ici, garcon.'"Beckett: "Itchy what?
Eoin Colfer
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
Oscar Wilde
... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Joseph Addison
The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.
Mehmet Murat ildan
O Luke, I would not lose thee as I lostDarth Vader. His betrayal made my lifeA bleak and tragic thing. Thy loss untoThe dark would make my death a hellish, coldEternity.
Ian Doescher
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
Aristophanes
or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours
Euripides
The world is a beautiful book but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Carlo Goldoni
Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan