Quotes by Playwrights - Page 142

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
William Saroyan
Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.
Jean Anouilh
Philosophically speaking, shadows of people are friendlier than people themselves because they come together very easily!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Have you listened to your heart?
Larry Kramer
The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Until death it is all life
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
What is really the Mars One project? It is to carry Frank Sinatra to the Mars, it is to carry Hamlet to the Mars, Gandhi to the Mars, Buddha to the Mars. It is a project of carrying our memories, our knowledge, our history, our everything to the Mars! It is not only a project of saving our future but also a project of saving our whole past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes were instantly soaked. She flung up her arms to the sky. Power ran to her fingertips. Excitement was communicated from the waiting trees, and the orchard, and the paddock; the intensity of their secret life caught at her and made her run. It was nothing like the excitement of ordinary looking forward, of birthday presents, of Christmas stockings, but the pull of a magnet - her grandfather had shown her once how it worked, little needles springing to the jaws - and now night and the sky above were a vast magnet, and the things that waited below were needles, caught up in the great demand. ("The Pool")
Daphne du Maurier
Timon: I’ll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing uglier than an unrighteous and foolish majority!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every day as I wave to my children when I drop them off at school, or let one of them have a new experience—like crossing the street without holding my hand—I experience the struggle between love and non-attachment. It is hard to bear—the extreme love of one’s child and the thought that ultimately the child belongs to the world. There is this horrible design flaw—children are supposed to grow up and away from you; and one of you will die first.
Sarah Ruhl
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me!GWENDOLEN: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
For in music there is no material to be deducted.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beware the ideas of March... just one little letter changes the whole meaning. I love the way worms can do that.
Alan Dapre
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Herman Wouk
I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it.
George Bernard Shaw
you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.
Cormac McCarthy
Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
Oscar Wilde
Sometimes you may feel that your heart is speaking and sometimes you may feel that your mind is speaking. In reality there is only one speaker: Mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!"Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined.
Bertolt Brecht
I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?
J. C. F. von Schiller
When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't lose today by worrying about tomorrow!!!
John F. Herbert
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
Euripides
Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men.
W Somerset Maugham
She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.
William Shakespeare
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.
William Shakespeare
Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.
Eoin Colfer
The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
When you do your work happily, work will disappear.
Mehmet Murat ildan
There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.
Aaron Sorkin
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde
He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.
Graham Greene
A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter!
Dodie Smith
Aunt Esther: You think you supposed to know everything. Life is a mystery. Don't you know life is a mystery? I see you still trying to figure it out. It ain't all for you to know. It's all an adventure. That's all life is. But you got to trust that adventure.
August Wilson
The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.
Mehmet Murat ildan
But it's like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there's still no guarantee that anybody's gonna be there for you to pick you up when you get there.
Nancy Oliver
If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.
Lord Dunsany
You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.
Sam Shepard
Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".
John Gay
That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
William Shakespeare
The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst."
William Shakespeare
The most dangerous enemy is the one who can easily make friends with his potential victims!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It's because his wife left him. That's why he's acting funny. She left him the other night. While she was putting her bags into the taxi he was outside on the footpath begging her to stay. On his knees! Why are men so embarrassing?Bev
Louis Nowra
Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...are you happy?""I am content.""What is the difference?""Between happiness and contentment? Ah, there you have me. It is not easy to put into words. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive--coming perhaps once in a life-time--and approaching ecstasy.""Not a continuous thing, like contentment?""No, not a continuous thing. But there are, after all, degrees of happiness.
Daphne du Maurier
She vied so fast, protesting oath after oath,that in a twink she won me to her love.O, you are novices. 'Tis a world to seeHow tame, when men and women are alone,A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
William Shakespeare
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.
Dodie Smith
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
Alan Bennett
Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In every nation’s history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!
Mehmet Murat ildan