Quotes by Playwrights - Page 21

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 always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

Cormac McCarthy

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Ben Jonson

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

Cao Yu

The Noblest form of Affection

Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

Not all the problems must be solved! Stick to this philosophy and you will save awful a lot of time! Stick to this philosophy!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-whit! To-who!—a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doe blow,And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl,To-whit! To-who!—a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

William Shakespeare

His saying was: live and let live.

Friedrich von Schiller

The light on her face was a lesson, a book that she hoped he would want to read, but he looked away from her...she did not want this man to leave her alone. He was kind. And she feared the loneliness of dreaming

Caryl Phillips

Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain

Aeschylus

Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice.

Paul Rudnick

The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from the first paragraph, had not materially changed since Silas's last book: mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs, father laid-out after his ninth downstairs, eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed, eldest daughter lying with her lover in the the hayloft, everyone else lying low in the barn. The rain dripped from the thatch, and the manure steamed in the midden. Silas never omitted the manure. It was not Silas's fault that its steam provided the only uprising element in the picture. If Silas could have discovered a brand of steam that steamed downwards, Silas would have introduced it.

Josephine Tey

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!

Eugene O'Neill

Impressive, most impressive, worthy lad,Thine Obi-Wan hath taught thee well, and thouHast master'd all thy fears. Now, go! ReleaseThine anger, for thy hate alone can strikeMe down!

Ian Doescher

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

William Saroyan

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Rebecca Wells

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene

Sophocles

Goodness had nothing to do with it.

Mae West

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!

Douglas Jerrold

In uplifting get underneath.

George Ade

Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Ruth Gordon

My geekness is a-quivering.

Jack Thorne

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

Barbara Blatner

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Cormac McCarthy

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

Emma Donoghue

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

Rebecca Wells

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Oscar Wilde

You can never know enough about your characters

W Somerset Maugham

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

Gertrude Stein

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!

Mehmet Murat ildan

O my love, my wife!Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breathHath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

William Shakespeare

Allegedly, allegedly I say, the R.G.A. were extremely miffed of portrait painted of their monarch, King Tingaling XX, by Master. Portrait apparently, as it’s yet t’be unveiled, depicts King Tingaling XX in rather compromisin’ position with a pineapple, a wad of cash and his favourite pig, Buttercup.

Elias Zapple

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Oscar Wilde

I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

Jeff Lindsay

Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.

Cormac McCarthy

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

William Shakespeare

Awake and asleep the novel is with you, dogging your footsteps. Strange formless bits of material float out from the ether about you and attach themselves to the main body of the story as though they had hung suspended in air for years, waiting.

Edna Ferber

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

Dodie Smith

I am a drinker with writing problems.

Brendan Behan

Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slightest breath.

Oscar Wilde

A good memory is needed once we have lied.

Corneille

I turn away reluctant from your light,And stand irresolute, a mind undone,A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sightFrom having looked too long upon the sun.Then is my daily life a narrow roomIn which a little while, uncertainly,Surrounded by impenetrable gloom,Among familiar things grown strange to meMaking my way, I pause, and feel, and hark,Till I become accustomed to the dark.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

What if the insane are too raw to know which stations are real and which are just confused static?

Kate Scelsa

If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

Oscar Wilde

If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?

Kara Lee Corthron

It's been well-thumbed, at least triple-read, there's that smell the fat orange-spine Penguins get when their pages have yellowed and the book bulges, basically the smell of complex humanity, sort of sweat and salt and endeavour. Like all the fat orange Penguins, it gets fatter with reading, which it should, because in a way the more you read it the bigger your own experience of the world gets, the fatter your soul.

Niall Williams

I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

Graham Greene

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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