Dramatist Quotations

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value?

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.

I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

I was taken completely by surprise. My wife died within a few minutes from an asthma attack. I was utterly destroyed. I was mad, crazy, I was howling.

Occasionally I still do a bit of stuff with people I met there seven years ago. It's like looking up an old lover IRL. But on the whole I've personally exhausted that avenue of research, so it no longer draws me. I did write a novel as a kind of document of that era.

When towns have sent out suicide bombers to fire incessantly and indiscriminately into Jewish communities, they become legitimate targets.

I create most of my own images. I steal about 2%. I use Photoshop but didn't learn it very deep. I am ultra lazy about learning software.

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

My Roman girlfriend translates bits from Italian into English. It is sublime.

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

I restrain myself a great deal. I don't say it, or I phrase it differently. But now and again I drop a lulu because I cannot resist it.

I was working as an art and tech researcher in '84. At that time there had been a small government program of assistance for artists for at least three or four years. I was working with Super 8 film then. And video in '85 and public radio in the early '80s.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.

We have had government funding for new media since the early '80s.

Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.

Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves.

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

A lot of the images in my work are a kind of visual diary of places I've been, what I've seen, heard, smelt.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.

I need to borrow a camera to take some pix of my studio, which is basically the kitchen table.

I like to travel. I will be in Banff next year. I would like to make a series of DVDs at Banff. I won't talk about where they will end up... just not in the media art world.

The few remaining truths are graffiti, suicide notes, shopping lists.