Quotes by Playwrights - Page 177

If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!
Mehmet Murat ildan
LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
Oscar Wilde
…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.
Leonardo Sciascia
Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.
Howard Zinn
Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. “Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room.” The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]
Damon Galgut
India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
Oscar Wilde
Everything has to be taken on trust truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.
Tom Stoppard
It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.
J.M. Barrie
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
Talent is an art of gaining admiration!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
Dodie Smith
My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.
Oscar Wilde
The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!
Mehmet Murat ildan
But far more numerous was the herd of stfch Who think too little and who talk too much.
John Dryden
Same ideas don’t create same faces but they create same behaviors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
Jeff Lindsay
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
Sinclair Lewis
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
Bertolt Brecht
Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away.
Emma Donoghue
This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be. It is this false moneyer with his gravers and burins who seeks favor with the judge and he is at contriving from cold slag brute in the crucible a face that will pass, an image that will render this residual specie current in the markets where men barter. Of this is the judge judge and the night does not end.
Cormac McCarthy
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude Stein
He that hath the steerage of my course,Direct my sail.
William Shakespeare
Come on then, I will swear to study soTo know the thing I am forbid to know- Berowne
William Shakespeare
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
Edna Ferber
When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop
William Saroyan
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Herbert Gardner
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
Oscar Wilde
To carry a light on Earth is to represent the Sun on earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past.
Betty Smith
Love me love my dog.
John Heywood
It is only dogs that never bite their masters.
Thornton Wilder
Good form without knowing it is the best form of all.
J.M. Barrie
And nothing is, but what is not.
William Shakespeare
How needy man is.
Larry Kramer
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
W Somerset Maugham
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines say what this man is before he dies, or what mankind is before it has disappeared.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All is change all yields its place and goes.
Euripides
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Ben Jonson
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves But never for us so hearty.
John B. Buckstone
He wants to enslave you.''I shudder at the thought of being free.
Oscar Wilde
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
T.S Eliot
There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness
Sophocles
Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
Margaret: Can I - can I just say something for the future?Leo: Yeah.Margaret: I can sign the President's name. I have his signature down pretty good.Leo: You can sign the President's name?Margaret: Yeah.Leo: On a document removing him from power and handing it to someone else?Margaret: Yeah! Or... do you think the White House Counsel would say that was a bad idea?Leo: I think the White House Counsel would say it was a coup d'etat!Margaret: Well. I'd probably end up doing some time for that.Leo: I would think. And what the hell were you doing practicing the President's signature?Margaret: It was just for fun.
Aaron Sorkin
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner
So you’re a reader,” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.
Denis Markell
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
Graham Greene
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Robertson Davies
If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, occasionally to win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive movements of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
Howard Zinn
Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
Tennessee Williams