Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.
I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.
You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.
Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.
If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.
I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.
I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter
What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.
In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.