Quotes by Playwrights - Page 161

Help!"This was my last cry. My mouth filled with water, I struggled against being drawn the abyss. Suddenly my clothes were seized by a strong hand, and I felt myself quickly drawn up to the surface of the sea; and I heard, yes, I heard these words pronounced in my ear:"If master would be so good as to lean on my shoulder, master would swim with much greater ease."I seized with one hand my faithful Conseil's arm. "Is it you?" said I, "you?""Myself," answered Conseil; "and waiting master's orders.""That shock threw you as well as me in the sea?""No; but, being in my master's service, I followed him."The worthy fellow thought that was but natural.
Jules Verne
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.
Plautus
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford
If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated every waking moment of the last twenty years. Anything, rather than feel.
Rachel Joyce
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hey you —All our fevered history won't instill insight,won't turn a body conscious,won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothingto solve even as each moment is an answer.
Claudia Rankine
I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.
Wallace Shawn
No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.
Howard Zinn
... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.
Eoin Colfer
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.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.
George Bernard Shaw
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
Bertolt Brecht
Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.
Eric Gamalinda
You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can save hundred words with just one look!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.
William Shakespeare
By disappearing in the Land of Nature, you appear in the Land of Wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
Arthur Miller
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
Oscar Wilde
To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!
Anton Chekhov
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
George Bernard Shaw
We must look hopeful.
Jerome Lawrence
Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
George Bernard Shaw
When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.
Jean Anouilh
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something quite different about you, from the last time we were together, what could it be….”Was this my ultra-dose of Intoxicated taking effect?“I know!” said the prince happily. “You’re a national disgrace!”“And do you know what else is interesting,” I replied. “In America, Prince is a dog’s name.
Paul Rudnick
You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.
Robertson Davies
Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?
Graham Greene
Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare
Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes.
Honoré de Balzac
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his book Crash and then mowed him down with their Volkswagen, crushing his chest slowly against a brick wall. As he screamed in agony larger than representation can accommodate, they referred to his text and had orgasms. Later, they jumped up and down yelling, ‘You’re not a hero. You’re not a hero. You’re not. You’re not. You’re not.’ ““How do you analyze that part of the dream, Anna?”…”I guess I’m nervous about my birthday.
Sarah Schulman
For this,let gardens grow, where beelines end,sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia;where bees pray on their knees, sing, praisein pear trees, plum trees; beesare the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.
Carol Ann Duffy
Give into love or live in fear.
Jonathan Larson
I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.
Mikhail Bulgakov
For it falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhile it was ours.
William Shakespeare
I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.
George Bernard Shaw
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce
My fish dream is a sex dream.
Joseph Heller
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
I am wealthy in my friends.
William Shakespeare
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Douglas Jerrold
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
John Galsworthy
Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home
J.M. Barrie
For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away
William Shakespeare
You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
Cormac McCarthy
In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love.
Elizabeth Alexander
Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.No matter how far we progress, we remain part animal, and it is the animal in us that fires our strategies, gives them life, animates us to fight. Without the desire to fight, without a capacity for the violence war churns up, we cannot deal with danger.The prudent Odysseus types are comfortable with both sides of their nature. They plan ahead as best they can, see far and wide, but when it comes time to move ahead, they move. Knowing how to control your emotions means not repressing them completely but using them to their best effect.
Robert Greene
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe