Lehmann Maupin Quotes & Sayings

He is the drip, drip of water that carves a canyon right through the middle of me. — Ann Brashares

Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly. — Ashot Nadanian

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged. — Karl Kraus

...I watched the day slip into night, noting the wondrous tonal transformations of the sunset on its dimmer switch, how blood-orange can shade imperceptibly into ice-blue on the knife-edge of the horizon, listening to the sea's interminable call for silence - shh, shh, shh. — William Boyd

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is. — Max Lucado

Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison. — James Fox

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it. — Irrfan Khan

What a man says when drunk, he thought about whilst sober. — Nana Awere Damoah

If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print. — Spiro T. Agnew

Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her, said Jeffrey. — Jeanne Birdsall

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? — W. Clement Stone

Fine. I'll leave the hammering to you." "Good." "That wasn't a sex joke." "It should have been. — Tiffany Reisz

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. — Stephen Greenblatt