Rapports De Stage Quotes & Sayings

These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick. — Bobby Moynihan

Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was what it appeared to be: if you were afraid your plane would crash it was about death, if you were trying to get a girl into bed it was about sex. Literature was never about what it appeared to be about, though in the case of the novel cosiderable ingenuity and perception were needed to crack the code of realistic illusion, which was why he had been professionally attracted to the genre (even the dumbest critic understood that Hamlet wasn't about how the guy wanted to kill his uncle, or the Ancient Mariner about cruelty to animals, but it was surprising how many people thought Jane Austen's novels were about finding Mr Right). — David Lodge

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. — Umberto Eco

You can do ice-breaking by being cool. — Toba Beta

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. — Francis Bacon

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence. — Eckhart Tolle

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time. — Mahatma Gandhi

The philosophers make still another objection: "What you gain in rigour," they say, "you lose in objectivity. You can rise toward your logical ideal only by cutting the bonds which attach you to reality. Your science is infallible, but it can only remain so by imprisoning itself in an ivory tower and renouncing all relation with the external world. From this seclusion it must go out when it would attempt the slightest application. — Henri Poincare

Acting is not just doing! It is who you are being and what you are experiencing that causes you to do - to need to act. Then doing turns arounds and changes your being. But doing without being is lifeless. — Jason Bennett

The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital. — David Frum

What's that?" Ty asked as he nodded at the bag.
Zane picked the bag back up and pulled out a set of heavy-duty handcuffs.
"These may be useful if I can't get you to sit still," he said, dangling them on one finger.
Ty shook his head and pointed one long finger at Zane warningly. "You try it and I'll freak out," he said seriously. — Abigail Roux

What I should do is go over to the surgical suites and get my foot extricated from my mouth. — Gordon Gee

I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. They're the best moments in a day of writing - when an image appears that you didn't know would be there when you started work in the morning. — Markus Zusak

I thought soccer was my future, but I got too big. — Peja Stojakovic

For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back. — Ze Frank