Quotes by Playwrights - Page 86

Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn’t matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!
Mehmet Murat ildan
La felicità non consiste nel mettersi al riparo dalla sofferenza, ma di integrarla al tessuto della nostra esistenza.
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea. And if it doesn't destroy it dies. It may be then that one is faced with the desolation of knowing that one has wasted the years of one's life, that one's brought disgrace upon oneself, endured the frightful pang of jealousy, swallowed every bitter mortification, that one's expended all one's tenderness, poured out all the riches of one's soul on a poor drab, a fool, a peg on which on hung one's dreams, who wasn't worth a stick of chewing gum.
W Somerset Maugham
Lord what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare
For I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a merely hidden existence. I find mute knowledge dangerous, for it grows ever more mute and ultimately secret, and must then avenge itself for being secret.
Elias Canetti
Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
William Shakespeare
Larry sat with his arm stretched out along the top of the front seat. His shirt cuff was pulled back by his position and displayed his slim, strong wrist and the lower part of his brown arm lightly covered with fine hairs. The sun shone goldly upon them. Something in Isabel's immobility attracted my attention, and I glanced at her. She was so still that you might have thought her hypnotized. Her breath was hurried. Her eyes were fixed on the sinewy wrist with its little golden hairs and on that long, delicate, but powerful hand, and I have never seen on a human countenance such a hungry concupiscence as I saw then on hers. It was a mask of lust. I would never have believed that her beautiful features could assume an expression of such unbridled sensuality. It was animal rather than human. The beauty was stripped from her face; the look upon it made her hideous and frightening. It horribly suggested the bitch in heat and I felt rather sick.
W Somerset Maugham
15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.
Howard Zinn
They're a pair of young Satans.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.
Harvey Fierstein
It unsettles the women as they have dropped their disguise and are now giant praying mantis with blonde and auburn wigs, lipstick smeared on those deadly pincher-like insect jaws.
Irvine Welsh
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds
Niall Williams
Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.
Eoin Colfer
When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
Our true appearance is our mind’s appearance; whatever our mind’s visage is, that is our real visage! Thus, whenever you meet a person, concentrate on his mind to see his real look, try to understand his mind because his mind is his real face!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself.
Anton Chekhov
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann von Goethe
There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
Mae West
The good old days. The only good days are ahead.
Alice Childress
Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!
Mehmet Murat ildan
She had searched for just the right guy; sensitive and gentle and willing to wait. Quite a long search, of course. She was looking for some imaginary man who cared more about having someone to talk to and see movies with than he needed to have sex, because she was just Not Ready for That. Did I say imaginary? Well yes. Human men are not like that.
Jeff Lindsay
We often think that earth is the ground where our houses are built; but scientifically saying, space is the ground and earth is the house built on that ground!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.
Dodie Smith
Give every man thine ear but few thy voice Take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment.
William Shakespeare
In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
William Shakespeare
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
William Shakespeare
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
Henry Becque
...nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior. All things appear greater than they really are, and all seem superior to us. This operation of the mind is quite natural: we so continually feel our own imperfections, and fancy we perceive in others the qualities we do not possess, attributing to them also all that we enjoy ourselves, that by this process we form the idea of a perfect, happy man,—a man, however, who only exists in our own imagination.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mother, you have my father much offended.
William Shakespeare
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)
Miguel de Unamuno
In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.
Mehmet Murat ildan
A light heart lives long.
William Shakespeare
More of your conversation would infect my brain.
William Shakespeare
For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.
Fay Weldon
When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me.
Sarah Ruhl
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
George Bernard Shaw
It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.
Oscar Wilde
I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.
Sophocles
The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to paper. The disease is a crash course in meaninglessness, lack of structure, the collapse of form.
Gwyneth Lewis
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
Cormac McCarthy
Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cinema – all art really – has great power. Power to illuminate. Power to transform. For those of us who experience film as literature, classic movies comprised an introductory education in the genre. As kids, many of us went searching through library shelves for obscure source novels after seeing some old movie or other. It was the start of many an adventure.
Robert Dunbar
Watching the rain is as beautiful as watching the sunset or the sunrise and it is even better because in addition to watching you can also listen to it, the fantastic music of the drop sounds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A curse burns bright on crime.
Aeschylus
…if a thing can be said to be, to exist, then such is the nature of these expansive times that this thing which is must suffer to be touched. Ours is a time of connection; the private, and we must accept this, and it’s a hard thing to accept, the private is gone. All must be touched. All touch corrupts. All must be corrupted. And if you’re thinking how awful these sentiments are, you are perfectly correct, these are awful times, but you must remember as well that this has always been the chiefest characteristic of the Present, to everyone living through it; always, throughout history, and so far as I can see for all the days and years to come until the sun and the stars fall down and the clocks have all ground themselves to expiry and the future has long long shaded away into Time Immemorial: the Present is always an awful place to be.
Tony Kushner
Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
Lillian Hellman
Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.
William Shakespeare
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.
T.S Eliot
The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.
William Shakespeare