Playgoers Quotes & Sayings

But writing is like breathing--I do it because I have to. Actually, writing might be more like reading--I do it because I can't imagine stopping. — Heather Frost

Women willing to think big and bold and brazen are the women who have shattered one glass ceiling after another to make shimmering stars for the rest of us to see our way by. — Toni Sorenson

The past is a black, heavy thing. It will quietly smother our spirits if we let it. You must make peace with it and move forward. — Sarah McCoy

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know." — Rudyard Kipling

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. — Michelangelo Antonioni

I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings. — Terry Teachout

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers ... — Vernon Lee

Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love. — Amanda Palmer

By wrenching this increasingly outdated revenge play into the present, Shakespeare forced his contemporaries to experience what he felt and what his play registers so profoundly: the world had changed. Old certainties were gone, even if new ones had not yet taken hold. The most convincing way of showing this was to ask playgoers to keep both plays in mind at once, to experience a new Hamlet while memories of the old one, ghostlike, still lingered. Audiences at the Globe soon found themselves, like Hamlet, straddling worlds and struggling to reconcile past and present. — James Shapiro

Shoot the pasties off the nipples of a ten-foot bull-dyke and win a cotton-candy goat. — Hunter S. Thompson

I strongly believe that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman. I am troubled by activist judges who are defining marriage. I have watched carefully what's happened in San Francisco, where licenses were being issued even though the law states otherwise. I have consistently stated that if-I'll support law to protect marriage between a man and a woman. And obviously these events are influencing my decision. — George W. Bush

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy. — Brooks Atkinson

One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past. — Stephen Kinzer

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way. — Brian De Palma

Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere. — Terry Teachout