Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Charles Dickens

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Austin Peck

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

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Charlie Kaufman

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

Didi Conn

I love working in the 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?'

Carrie Coon

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

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I didn't see 'Star Wars' in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.

Jim Zwerg

We were having a celebration for the integration of the movie theaters when we got word of the bus-burning.

Jane Krakowski

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

Charlotte Bronte

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.

Tom Odell

I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.

Ricky Gervais

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.