Quotes by Playwrights - Page 72

Love entered in my heart one dayA sad, unwelcome guest.But when it begged that it might stayI let it stay and restIt broke my nights with sorrowingIt filled my heart with fearsAnd, when my soul was prone to sing,It filled my eyes with tears.But...now that it has gone its way,I miss the dear ole pain.And, sometimes, in the night I prayThat Love might come again.
J. California Cooper
The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though lock'd up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
William Shakespeare
Turn hell-hound, turn.
William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.
William Shakespeare
DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.
Patrick Marber
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
Sir James M. Barrie
With him for a sire and her for a dam What should I be but just what I am?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein
Get out of my chair, dillhole!
A.A. Milne
I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.I know you didn't.I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.
Cormac McCarthy
Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every man has two lives: The first one is the one we are living now and the second one is our memories! Memories are our invisible lives. But you must know that it is your first life that creates your second life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.
Howard Zinn
If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.
Sarah Schulman
We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them. On the other hand, when he is happy, he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyse it, just as if happiness were his right.
Luigi Pirandello
There is nothing sacred about any beliefs! They are all the apparent inventions of human mind! Beliefs of the billions have nothing to do with the truth! If the world can stop deceiving itself, there will emerge a new world, a world that represents the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging."Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on."Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.
A.A. Milne
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?""Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.
A.A. Milne
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
If I could write the beauty of your eyesAnd in fresh numbers number all your graces,The age to come would say 'this poet lies! Such heaven never touched earthly faces
William Shakespeare
What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle.
Carson McCullers
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.
Gao Xingjian
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
T.S Eliot
Oh, come on! Nobody's favorite color is BROWN!
Lee Blessing
To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.
John Osborne
It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.
Augusta Gregory
Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity
Lin-Manuel Miranda
The rest, is silence.
William Shakespeare
Virtue has its own reward but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
Oscar Wilde
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey
Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.
William Shakespeare
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.
Hélène Cixous
I picked up the blue tube again, unscrewed the cap, and squeezed a perfect line of paint onto the palate. As soon as I brushed it on the canvas, I was responsible for it, for the inevitable imperfections. My world had always been like that paint, left on a palate. That color was a passive observer. But not it wanted to make something of itself. And I was terrified.
Kate Scelsa
Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. I, myself, even in this day and at my age, have great need of recalling the miraculous lives of the Saints and the great miracles that have come to pass on earth. Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for.
Betty Smith
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
Gertrude Stein
Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.
J.M. Barrie
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
Oscar Wilde
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.
Graham Greene
3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely but too well,Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,Like the base Indian, threw a pearl awayRicher than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drop tears as fast as the Arabian treesTheir medicinable gum. Set you down this,And say besides that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turbaned TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by th' throat the circumcised dogAnd smote him thus.
William Shakespeare
When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Beloved, we join hands here to pray for gin. An aridity defiles us. Our innards thirst for the juice of juniper. Something must be done. The drought threatens to destroy us. Surely, God who let manna fall from the heavens so that the holy children of Israel might eat, will not let the equally holy children of Niggeratti Manor die from the want of a little gin. Children, let us pray.
Wallace Thurman
I'm probably the only person in the world that feels physical pain as a reaction to joy.
Kara Lee Corthron
You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
William Saroyan
There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities.
Mehmet Murat ildan