Harked Gui Quotes & Sayings

The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words, that a playwright had to do more than throw in some of the complications found in all novels, and perpetually attractive to theater audiences. Playwrights had to be novel without being bizarre, frequently sublime but never unnatural; they had to understand the human heart had let it speak for itself; they had to be great poets but never let any of their characters sound like poets; they had to perfectly understand language and use it purely, with continuous harmony, never disjointing it with forced rhyme. — Voltaire

The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature. — Anthony Trollope

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love. — Victor Hugo

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive. — Barry Mann

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects. — John Banville

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it. — H. Rider Haggard

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man. — Thomas Carlyle

Are terrorists going to be deterred
are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism. — Howard Zinn

I didn't come in as a writer that found producers, I came in under producers. So I've always respected the actual production process and producers in general. — Pusha T