Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

Francis Ford Coppola

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

Jennifer Ehle

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

Jennifer Capriati

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Jeff Tweedy

I don't know where people get the idea that every Wilco record is supposed to have drama. OK, I guess historically speaking we've had our fair share of ups and downs.

Greil Marcus

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

Gregory Maguire

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

Ian Mckellen

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

Ian Mckellen

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

Howard Hawks

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

George Berkeley

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

George Bernard Shaw

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

George Bernard Shaw

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

George Bernard Shaw

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

George Bernard Shaw

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

George Bernard Shaw

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

Gena Rowlands

John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for drama, you do a play as opposed to a final. Anyone who wanted to come could just come. So he came, and I can't remember the name of the play, of course, it was a long time ago.

Gemma Arterton

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

Gary Lineker

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

Frederick Wiseman

I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.

Franz Kafka

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Erica Durance

I really enjoy comedy, but I also still really enjoy the drama aspect. So, I don't like to narrow my possible chances out there.

The more dramatic effect was in 1998 and 2000. There was a growth in Latino and Asian- American registration rates and a maintenance of the higher levels of voter participation.

Dramatic difference. I've even dropped a pant size and haven't dieted, haven't exercised.

Colin Montgomerie

It was tough to start five behind, ... I said to myself if I could get two back in the first five, I could do this. I got two back after six, and seven was a dramatic change.

Alan Davis

The stock has probably bottomed out. But with no dramatic increases in earnings any time soon, the stock will probably increase in line with earnings growth.

A wedding is such a dramatic event in any person's life that it's the perfect fodder for the movies, ... from picture perfect rituals to those chaos-ridden family affairs.

There should not be any drama and there is no drama.

E. O. Wilson

I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other playwrights or reading other plays, because I haven't done much of either of those. Again, you have an intuitive sense that this is dramatic or a nice shape to a scene; you intuitively know how to tell a good story... where the highlights are, what information to withhold, and how to reveal things.

Robert Webb

I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.

Denis Potvin

I've been here a long time with my family, and I really enjoy it down here. I don't know if I could conceivably go into a lifestyle like that, because it would be a dramatic change.

We expect modest growth in November and dramatic growth in December,

The knock-on effects to the International Space Station are quite dramatic ... (long delays) could potentially be a show-stopper for the whole thing.