Quotes by Playwrights - Page 78

Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarised only in one word: Vacation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Twilight is a court; when the sun sets we are put on trial in this dusky court! All things we have done throughout the day are interrogated by our conscience, the invisible judge of our minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you internalise the wisdom of the birds; by observing the Moon, you internalise the wisdom of the Moon! Wisdom is a process of adding the experiences of the universe to our minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
May be it is good that we can’t quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Travelling is the best way to introduce ourselves to the universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When an extraordinary place meets with an extraordinary light, extraordinary shadows suddenly pop out from nowhere and create the most extraordinary moments of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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
Not only try but try your best!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to understand it.
George Herman
It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.
Joseph Heller
The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.
George Herman
In the meanwhile, just see how profitable the fruits of non-violence are in this life. You stay pure while someone else, someone like me and my Rajput clan, does the sinning and the killing. While you religiously refrain yourself from bloodying your hands, you lend vast sums of money to finance the mightiest armies at minuscule decimal point percentages which add up to monstrous sums of interest.
Kiran Nagarkar
...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Here you will meet singular side-whiskers, tucked with extraordinary and amazing art under the necktie, velvety whiskers, satiny whiskers, black as sable or coal, but, alas, belonging only to the foreign office. Providence has denied black side-whiskers to those serving in other departments; they, however great the unpleasantness, must wear red ones. Here you will meet wondrous mustaches, which no pen or brush is able to portray; mustaches to which the better part of a lifetime is devoted––object of long vigils by day and by night; mustaches on which exquisite perfumes and scents have been poured, and which have been anointed with all the most rare and precious sorts of pomades, mustaches which are wrapped overnight in fine vellum, mustaches which are subject to the most touching affection of their possessors and are the envy of passers-by. A thousand kinds of hats, dresses, shawls––gay-colored, ethereal, for which their owners' affection sometimes lasts a whole two days––will bedazzle anyone on Nevsky Prospect.
Nikolai Gogol
If a queen comes to America, crowds fill the station squares, and attendant British journalists rejoice, 'You see: the American Cousins are as respectful to Royalty as we are.'But the Americans have read of queens since babyhood. they want to see one queen, once, and if another came to town next week, with twice as handsome a crown, she would not draw more than two small boys and an Anglophile.Americans want to see one movie star, one giraffe, one jet plance, one murder, but only one. They run up a skyscraper or the fame of generals and evangelists and playwrights in one week and tear them all down in an hour, and the mark of excellence everywhere is 'under new management'.
Sinclair Lewis
People who regularly abuse power don't like being laughed at'.
Pieter-Dirk Uys
Jason Mashak’s SALTY AS A LIP is grounded in a voice patiently bridging the “steeples and ‘scrapers” of an inquisitive mind. The poems are at once syllogistic, hard-edged, satirical, reflective, and finally as playful as love notes. The true joy of this book is that we are deliciously engaged in a "pantomime of pleasure" which the language and imagery generously evoke.
James Ragan
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Oh well," McWatt sang, "what the hell.
Joseph Heller
Maud: Young women are never happy.Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.
Caryl Churchill
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
Anton Chekhov
Many more villagers, who have seen an elephant for the first time in their lives, give absurd exaggerations regarding his size, weight, and height. One of them describes him as ‘a fundament!’. Another, elaborating, alludes to the term ‘firmament,’ because of the elephant’s hugeness. He felt as though the sky was obliterated from his vision. The last to be interviewed by the local TV station swears that he sensed the world lean forward as the elephant came closer and tilt backwards as the beast walked away.This large mammal ambles purposefully. He pays no heed to the crowded silence following him in stealthy consciousness. One of the villagers, a woman often suspected of dabbling in witchcraft, talks of her inspired theory: that this was no elephant, more like a human on a holy mission of avenging justice. Two other witnesses, neither having had any contact with the woman, speak in substantiation of the woman’s claims, giving as evidence the observation that the elephant turned around when someone said something in Somali. Several villagers will not comment, afraid of a fitting retribution should they do so.
Nuruddin Farah
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe