Dramaturgically Quotes & Sayings

I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree. — D.R. Silva

Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. — Margaret Atwood

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show. — Jeanette MacDonald

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time. — Mona Kuhn

There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards. — Jane Goodall

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf. — Mike Mills

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that. — Mark Mason

Write this letter or we'll put you in a home, grandma. — Meg Cabot

Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men. — David Brainerd

By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil. — Gabriel Fackre

Dramaturgically, you always hear that you want to see things in the moment, you want to see things happen, you don't want to talk about things, but with "Friends," it was more fun when they talked about it. — Marta Kauffman

I know I should say he suddenly seemed vulnerable and I felt a connection to his soul or whatever, but the truth is I just wanted to tackle him and then make out for the next three thousand years. — Elizabeth Scott

Forty percent of the thirteen hundred members of Yale's graduating class of 1986 applied to one investment bank, First Boston, alone. There was, I think, a sense of safety in the numbers. The larger the number of people involved, the easier it was for them to delude themselves that what they were doing must be smart. The first thing you learn on the trading floor is that when large numbers of people are after the same commodity, be it a stock, a bond, or a job, the commodity quickly becomes overvalued. Unfortunately, at the time, I had never seen a trading floor. The — Michael Lewis

Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed! — Jimmy Durante