Odets Waiting Quotes & Sayings

Joy is your birthright. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth ... Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers. — Brigham Young

I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. When I stopped on the corner of Sixteenth Street and made a closer inspection it turned out to be something called a "Gay Pride Parade," which made my stomach turn. — Bret Easton Ellis

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. — E.Y. Harburg

Tsukiko sits on the floor in the center of the room, wearing a red kimono. A beating crimson heart in the pale chamber. — Erin Morgenstern

There are some works so luminous ... so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role. — Herve Le Tellier

One of these was Harry Hay, a young actor and communist who had been performing in Clifford Odets' play on unionization, Waiting for Lefty, at the Hollywood Guild Theatre. Hay would later become father of the gay rights movement in America, but he was hired to play the organ for the OTO's Gnostic Mass, having been drawn to the temple through his friendship with Regina Kahl. — George Pendle