Quotes by Playwrights - Page 28

Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna find your mama but she gonna come to you. Close your eyes. I bets you see her good.

Nancy Rawles

We defy augury. There is special providence inthe fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not tocome, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—thereadiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is'tto leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)

William Shakespeare

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.

Christy Hall

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

Miguel de Cervantes

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

George Bernard Shaw

I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

Diane Samuels

And at once he sacrificed everything to it, if it can be said we ever sacrifice anything save what we know we can never attain, or what some secret wisdom tells us it would be uncomfortable or saddening to possess.

Thornton Wilder

... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.

Graham Greene

Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!

Mehmet Murat ildan

How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Lady Macbeth

William Shakespeare

The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

A.A. Milne

My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

Luigi Pirandello

Make use of time let not advantage slip.

William Shakespeare

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!

Mehmet Murat ildan

High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Tennessee Williams

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

William Shakespeare

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

Damon Galgut

Loneliness—since I was trying to escape it—was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently happiness.

Kōbō Abe

I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads

Federico García Lorca

Na ca mi-a slabit vederea. Te rogi atata timp sa ti se arate Dumnezeu si cand ai ajuns langa El, nu-L mai vezi.

Marin Sorescu

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Daphne du Maurier

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Tennessee Williams

Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.

Euripides

Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."Ma says it but on mute.I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

Emma Donoghue

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

But you do believe, don’t you," Rose implored him, "you think it’s true?"t"Of course it’s true," the Boy said. "What else could there be?" he went scornfully on. "Why," he said, "it’s the only thing that fits. These atheists, they don’t know nothing. Of course there’s Hell. Flames and damnation," he said with his eyes on the dark shifting water and the lightning and the lamps going out above the black struts of the Palace Pier, "torments." "And Heaven too," Rose said with anxiety, while the rain fell interminably on. "Oh, maybe," the Boy said, "maybe.

Graham Greene

You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.

George Bernard Shaw

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Thomas Bernhard

Best to live lightly unthinkingly.

Sophocles

Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing.

Sinclair Lewis

Hell is just a frame of mind.

Christopher Marlowe

Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it’s all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you’ll head for hell!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Ram. My lord constable, the armor that I saw in your tent to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?Con. Stars, my lord.Dau. Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.Con. And yet my sky shall not want.Dau. That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and ’twere more honor some were away.Con. Even as your horse bears your praises; who would trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.Henry V, 3.7.69-78

William Shakespeare

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us?

Irvine Welsh

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

Fay Weldon

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw

By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.

Anton Chekhov

Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won't have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I'd rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to do the right thing, sometimes messing up. Making mistakes. Saying you're sorry. And forgiving other people when they mess up, too.

Madeleine George

I myself am an absolute abyss.

Antonin Artaud

...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.

William Shakespeare

Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the daily possibility of love dying. The nightmare of a future of boredom and indifference would lift. I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

Graham Greene

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

Diane Samuels

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

T.S Eliot

Existence is tedious, anyway.

Anton Chekhov

In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.

Aaron Sorkin

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves."The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having a meaning and shape that eludes the rest of us in the endless wash of 'What the hell are we doing here?' In a single day, says an Israeli friend, he experiences events and emotions that would keep a Swede going for a year.

David Hare

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

George Bernard Shaw

When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?

Larry Kramer

Nothing in life was as ugly as death.

Graham Greene

To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.

William Shakespeare

There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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