Quotes by Playwrights - Page 74

(Popular singer Eddie Fisher, appearing on This is Show Business, told Kaufman that women refused to date him because he looked so young.) Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars up to twenty-four times the magnification of any previous telescope. This remarkable instrument was unsurpassed in the world of astronomy until the construction of the Mount Palomar telescope, an even more remarkable instrument of magnification. Owing to advances and improvements in optical technology, it is capable of magnifying the stars to four times the magnification and resolution of the Mount Wilson telescope - Mr. Fisher, if you could somehow put the Mount Wilson telescope inside the Mount Palomar telescope, you still wouldn't be able to detect my interest in your problem.
George S. Kaufman
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
Tennessee Williams
When climbing, you don’t have to put your foot on every step, jump over some of them! When solving your problems, you don’t have to solve each and every one, jump over some of them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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
While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It's easier to get over a thing" Scobie said, "if you talk about it
Graham Greene
Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind’s invention, your mind’s exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a littleproblem anymore.
Cormac McCarthy
No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.
Herman Wouk
It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.
Jeff Lindsay
you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.
Cormac McCarthy
She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.
Betty Smith
Fanfare for the MakersA cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?To the small fire that never leaves the sky.To the great fire that boils the daily pot.To all the things we are not remembered by,Which we remember and bless. To all the thingsThat will not notice when we die,Yet lend the passing moment words and wings.So fanfare for the Makers: who composeA book of words or deeds who runs may writeAs many who do run, as a family growsAt times like sunflowers turning towards the light.As sometimes in the blackout and the raidsOne joke composed an island in the night.As sometimes one man’s kindness pervadesA room or house or village, as sometimesMerely to tighten screws or sharpen bladesCan catch a meaning, as to hear the chimesAt midnight means to share them, as one manIn old age plants an avenue of limesAnd before they bloom can smell them, before they spanThe road can walk beneath the perfected arch,The merest greenprint when the lives beganOf those who walk there with him, as in defaultOf coffee men grind acorns, as in despiteOf all assaults conscripts counter assault,As mothers sit up late night after nightMoulding a life, as miners day by dayDescend blind shafts, as a boy may flaunt his kiteIn an empty nonchalant sky, as anglers playTheir fish, as workers work and can take prideIn spending sweat before they draw their pay.As horsemen fashion horses while they ride,As climbers climb a peak because it is there,As life can be confirmed even in suicide:To make is such. Let us make. And set the weather fair.Louis Macneice
Louis MacNeice
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W Somerset Maugham
If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses.
George Bernard Shaw
This is the book, then , and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your child--even though you yourself do not understand what is written down and cannot sound the words properly. You must do this that the child will grow up knowing of what is great---knowing that these tenements of Williamsburg are not the whole world."Katie: " The Protestant Bible and Shakespeare.
Betty Smith
Her time has come," answered Miss Lizzie. "That's why I didn't marry Harvey - long ago when he asked me. I was afraid of 'that'. So afraid." "I don't know," Miss Lizzie said. "Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than just to be safe." She waited until the next scream died away. "At least she knows she's living.
Betty Smith
Some women are born mothers, some women become mothers, and some have motherhood thrust upon them. I struggled against it all my life, but I think the truth is I was probably born to it. I don't do badly, I don't do well, I just do it.
Fay Weldon
I don't recognize her. This is not the woman I knew so round and made-up with her hair always a wavy jet black! I stay back until she opens her arms to me - this strange and familiar woman - her voice hoarse, "¡Ay mi'jita!" Instinctively, I run into her arms, still holding back my insides. "Don't cry. Don't cry", I remember. "Whatever you do, no llores." But my tía had not warned me about the smell, the unmistakable smell of the woman, mi mamá, el olor de aceite y jabón and comfort and home. "Mi mamá." And when I catch the smell I am lost in tears, deep long tears that come when you have held your breath for centuries.
Cherríe L. Moraga
I heard a baby cry. And this blood-splattered thing was put in my arms. My child. And, at that moment, it was like a gigantic plug appeared and - POW! - I was plugged into humanity in a way I'd never been before. Never could be. I was part of all mothers and all births from the beginning of time. I was a woman in a mud hut in Africa, in an igloo in the Arctic, a wigwam in America, a cave, a skyscraper, a spaceship. I was part of a flow and that flow was blood -
Philip Ridley
I don’t think the world should assume that we are all natural mothers. And it does. I don’t think it’s such a big thing anymore, but the idea that you sacrifice everything for your children—it’s a load of rubbish. It leads to very destructive living and thinking, and it has a much worse effect on children than if you go out and live your own life. You’re meant to adore your children at all times, and you’re not meant to have a bad thought about them. That’s facism, you know, and it’s elevating the child at the expense of the mother. It’s like your life is not valid except in fulfilling this child’s needs. What about all your needs, your desires, your wants, your problems? They’re going to come out anyway, so it’s better they’re acknowledged straight off. Having said that, I really do believe that children have to be protected. They have to be loved. Somewhere between the two, I think, something needs to be sorted out. The relationship between parent and child is so difficult and so complex. There’s every emotion there. We mostly only acknowledge the good ones. If we were allowed to talk about the other ones, maybe it would alleviate them in some way
Marina Carr
When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If one part of a country is watching football match while the other part of the same country is under heavy attacks by the rockets, then we can say that there is no nation in that country, but there is only crowd of people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Stick to the honesty and never leave it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can’t control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best dancer is the one who isn’t even aware that she is dancing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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
If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a weak person, every little hill is a giant mountain; for a strong person, every giant mountain is a little hill!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values!
Mehmet Murat ildan
May be you have already reached your target, but if you don’t know this, you will move away from your target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can’t make a high jump without high spirits!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When an empty person sits on an empty chair, the chair will still remain empty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!
Mehmet Murat ildan