Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility

Charles Caleb Colton

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Charlie Kaufman

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

Robert Wilson

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Austin Peck

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Carrie Coon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

Angela Lansbury

The theater is magical and addictive.

Stephen Sachs

I think it's going to be visually stunning. It's going to be a very unique theater experience,

Edmond Rostand

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

William Hedgcock Webster

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

Fred Thompson

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

Cal Cochran

It's just another game. The stakes don't change.

George Herbert

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

Madeleine L'Engle

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

R. C. Sproul

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

Werner Heisenberg

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.