Quotes by Playwrights - Page 41

If you see a strange thing, try to understand it! If you can understand it, nothing strange will remain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you fully understand something, you become that something itself! If you understand a rock, you become a rock; if you understand the universe, you become the universe; if you understand a horse, you become a horse! Understanding automatically transforms you into the thing understood!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.
Lord Dunsany
FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,I cut mine arm, and with my proper bloodAssure my soul to be great Lucifer's,Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!
Christopher Marlowe
In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
He who knows how to fall without hurting himself will also know how to rise without any difficulty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.
Eoin Colfer
The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
Oscar Wilde
Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...
Susan Hill
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
Graham Greene
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
Oscar Wilde
The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?
Graham Greene
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
Graham Greene
One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
Graham Greene
Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only your living, breathing self, not a citizen of any state, not a stake in that infernal game, the place where only what reason you have can still work to some reasonable effect in a world gone mad.
Stefan Zweig
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes you must behave like a tunnel! If a formidable mountain is on your way, thrust through it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To be a plain means to die for a mountain; to be a mountain means to die for a plain! Thus, to kill a mountain, make it plain; to kill a plain, make it mountain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Trees make man happy in thousands of different ways; in return, man hurts the trees in thousands of different ways! What an honourable being man is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even a lamb can defend itself, but a tree cannot even do that. If you are a just person, you never harm any tree, those defenceless angels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
She saw night lights in the rooms of the babies who dreamed soft seersucker dreams, drugged happy with the heat, their pink baby bodies curled against worn out cotton, not fearing Hitler yet, their strong, tiny hearts beating in unison with the trees and the creeks and the bayou
Rebecca Wells
He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey’s!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Edna Ferber
As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe.She walked softly along the alleyway to the pool. The late sun sent shafts of light between the trees and onto the alleyway, and a myriad insects webbed their way in the beams, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder. But were they insects, wondered Deborah, or particles of dust, or even split fragments of light itself, beaten out and scattered by the sun?It was very quiet. The woods were made for secrecy. They did not recognise her as the garden did. ("The Pool")
Daphne du Maurier
Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller
Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.
Anton Chekhov
Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they ofiron or of gold.
Henrik Ibsen
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
Oscar Wilde
Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.
Stig Dagerman
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch of the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Oscar Wilde
I'm not involved, not involved," I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action.
Graham Greene
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
Oscar Wilde
JACK.I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.ALGERNON.We have.JACK.I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?ALGERNON.The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course.JACK.What fools!
Oscar Wilde
And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.
Henry Fielding
Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.
William Shakespeare
Jack shall have Jill.Nought shall go ill.
William Shakespeare
I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care to have breakfast with.
W Somerset Maugham
Deliver me from my disciples!
Oscar Wilde
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.
Noël Coward
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
Oscar Wilde
Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. But beyond that it is entirely up to you. You’ve got to do for yourself all the seeking and finding concerned with what you want to do. Anyone but yourself is useless to you there.
Eugene O'Neill
Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.
Tennessee Williams
The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth
William Shakespeare
It's good to remember…So you know you need to do now,So you know that you ain't got forever just right now,Good to remember death man.
Tarell Alvin McCraney