Plays Quotes

Plays Quote of the day

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

Young love don't know nothin' when the radio plays you sing along. When she's holding on you just can't get close enough, you swear it's sent from above. It's real,it's good, and it's young love

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater - I loved all those old radio plays.

Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

Opportunity plays a big role in having success

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

He [Shakespeare] was a wordsmith who loved to act and to see things from many points of view.(...) His genius lay in being able to see all sides of an argument.

Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.

Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul, Pointing out the way to infamy and shame." - Creon

The level of your dedication plays a big role in having stability

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.

Don't even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence.

Why won’t you help me?
You have to able to manage on your own.

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

Emotions tend to entwine Earthlings together.

There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone." - Sentry

It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.

It is amazing how sharing of one’s intimate details can make human beings forget the formality of a relationship and bring them closer together.

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

Oh, come on! Nobody's favorite color is BROWN!

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use

I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.

The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd, Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind