Quotes by Playwrights - Page 35

Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past. It must be dreamed again.

Assotto Saint

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

Graham Greene

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

Pietro Aretino

We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

J.M. Barrie

Fear is the start of wisdom.

Miguel de Unamuno

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

William Shakespeare

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

Oscar Wilde

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Ben Jonson

Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A tragedy can catch us any time possible; for this very reason, we must catch the life any time possible!

Mehmet Murat ildan

My master then, assuming he is solitary, in my image, wishes me well, poor devil, wishes my good, and if he does not seem to do very much in order not to be disappointed it is because there is not very much to be done or, better still, because there is nothing to be done, otherwise he would have done it, my great and good master, that must be it, long ago, poor devil. Another supposition, he has taken the necessary steps, his will is done as far as I am concerned (for he may have other protégés) and all is well with me without my knowing it. Cases one and two. I’ll consider the former first, if I can. Then I’ll admire the latter, if my eyes are still open.

Samuel Beckett

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.

T.S Eliot

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

Jean Kerr

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they desire exceedingly.

Terence

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferber

Thy wish was father to that thought.

William Shakespeare

Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yourself, there won’t be any emptiness left inside you, because universe will immediately flow into that emptiness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle withmyself, now I’m making out a case to myself, and debating my own feelings andintentions with myself. Who is this self, this phantom internal partner, with whom I’mentering into all these arrangements? (I ask myself.)

Michael Frayn

Art is science made clear.

Jean Cocteau

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

Daphne du Maurier

One man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare

You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.

Cormac McCarthy

Something always attracts us towards the ruins, because ruins remind us our fundamental problem: The problem of impermanence! Amongst the ruins we see the very end of our road! Whatever shows you the simple truth, it is your Master Teacher; whoever repeatedly recalls you of the plain truth, he is your good master!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare

RUMOUR:"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

William Shakespeare

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Menander

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Jean Anouilh

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

Graham Greene

We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don't ever know me.

Patrick Marber

Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited, mainly because no one has ever asked them before.

Eve Ensler

The most perfect magic for a child is the touch of a loving hand!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You think that I am naive, but it is you who are naive. You have no idea what is happening inside of you when you look at a painting. You think that you are getting close to art voluntarily, enticed by its beauty, that this intimacy is taking place in an atmosphere of freedom and that delight is being born in you spontaneously, lured by the divine rod of Beauty. In truth, a hand has grabbed you by the scruff of the neck, led you to this painting and has thrown you to your knees. A will mightier than your own told you to attempt to experience the appropriate emotions. Whose hand and whose will? That hand is not the hand of a single man, the will is collective, born in an interhuman dimension, quite alien to you. So you do not admire at all, you merely try to admire.

Witold Gombrowicz

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

Jean-Paul Sartre

You will desperately realise the necessity of casting anchor to somewhere or being chained to someone or something when you are drifting in the emptiness of life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

Thornton Wilder

The future happens. No matter how much we scream.

Derek Walcott

Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Sweet are the uses of adversityWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Jean Anouilh

For all that beauty that doth cover theeIs but the seemly raiment of my heart,Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.How can I then be elder than thou art?

William Shakespeare

AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITYFor every star in the skySomeone is holding his ground.

Kenneth Koch

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

Rebecca Wells

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.

Mehmet Murat ildan

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Tom Stoppard

It was a girl playing a harp, like in an orchestra. It was in this tree at our campsite. And since it was breezy weather that weekend, the girl's arms were almost always turning.

Paul Fleischman

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

Rebecca Wells

SNAPE: Sometimes costs are made to be borne.

Jack Thorne

Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.

Sinclair Lewis

...My dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me was never ask a guy what you do for a living. He said "If you think about it, when you ask a guy, what do you do you do for a living," you’re saying "how may I gauge the rest of your utterances." are you smarter than I am? Are you richer than I am, poorer than I am?" So you ask a guy what do you do for a living, it’s the same thing as asking a guy, let me know what your politics are before I listen to you so I know whether or not you’re part of my herd, in which case I can nod knowingly, or part of the other herd, in which case I can wish you dead.

David Mamet

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

A.A. Milne

Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.

Honoré de Balzac

The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.

Barney Norris

I love the fact that Perrault's princess goes on living and struggling after she finds her prince, and that Perrault doesn't shrink from the weirdness of Sleeping Beauty being over a hundred years old but having the body of a lithe young thing. When the prince wakes her, he considers telling her she's wearing the kind of clothes his grandmother used to wear, but decides it's best not to mention it just yet.

Samantha Ellis

Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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