Quotes by Playwrights - Page 87

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".
A.A. Milne
As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
William Shakespeare
It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.
Lord Dunsany
Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.
Edward Bond
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne
I can't tell you why God made you the way you are any more than I can tell you why he's planted a carcinoma in my stomach to make me die painfully while other men die peacefully in their sleep. The cogs of creation seem to slip all the time. Babies are born with two heads, mothers of families run crazy with carving knives, men die in plague, famine and thunderstorms. Why? Only God knows.
Morris West
To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.
Cormac McCarthy
Of course, he sees creation as discovery. I mean, everything is already created, by the first cause---call it God if you like; everything is already there to be found.
Dodie Smith
There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.
Aaron Sorkin
...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.
Alfred Jarry
Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.
Anna Deavere Smith
This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Creation has become so broad, there’s no emptiness. Everything swarms and seethes. The void has destroyed itself; creation is its wound, we are its drops of blood, the world is the grave in which it rots.
Georg Büchner
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
Samuel Beckett
Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every time you survive a horrible storm you start thinking that you are immortal and this is the most negative and the most dangerous part of self-confidence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Belief in yourself is more important than endless worries of what others think of you. Value yourself and others will value you. Validation is best that comes from within.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
When one has attained a state of mind from which the evil passions of the present world have been so utterly winnowed, fear too is forgotten. Thus it was that the priest no longer could understand why Hell should exist.
Yukio Mishima
There is no point of being enlightened unless you have started enlightening others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.
Eoin Colfer
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything transitory is but an image.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thy best of rest is sleep,And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'stThy death, which is no more.
William Shakespeare
The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
Arnold Bennett
The death of each days life
William Shakespeare
What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyesWould, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...
William Shakespeare
Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.
Rachel Joyce
Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,And look on death itself!
William Shakespeare
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.
Jean Cocteau
A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.
Mihail Sebastian
Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What a thing this sleeplessness was!...If sleep, she thought, could be compared to a gentle lake ina dark place, the sleeplessness was a roaring ocean, a raging, wind-buffeted voyage, lit with mad rocket-lights, pursued by wild phantoms from behind, plunging upon fearful rocks ahead, a mad tempest of the past and present and future all in one. Through all this the pale, strenuous mariner must somehow steer a way, until at last the weary dawn, not of sleep, but of resignation to sleeplessness, comes to calm the waters of the mind.
Patrick Hamilton
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
Jules Verne
Let those who are awake awaken the dormant in every matter which desperately needs the liberating light of the truth or else the dormant will forever sleep!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.
Cormac McCarthy
What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him.
Mihail Sebastian
I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.
Eugène Ionesco
When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again.
Irvine Welsh
She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.
Rebecca Wells
You have to cross many bridges and you have to walk many paths in your life! But what is more important than this is to know which bridges you should not cross and which paths you must not walk!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will best realise the speed of life when you stop and watch the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In life there are times where you have to behave like twilight streets: Don’t move, don’t speak, don’t even dream, just be silent and wait for the light to shine on you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Tell me the direction of your thoughts and I will tell you the direction of your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is so stupid that all his life slips through his hands while trying to understand what the life is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Shabelsky: O mind of genius, you think up things for everyone and teach everyone, but why not for once teach me... Teach me, great brain, show me the way out...
Anton Chekhov
If there is no one around you that you can teach, it is time to leave to another place where you can teach; if there is no one around you to teach you, it is time to leave to another place where you can be taught!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department.
Earl Lovelace
To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.
Robertson Davies