Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand…

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that…

— Michelle Dockery

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

— Eleanora Duse

To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they…

— Eleanora Duse

Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic…

— Nigel Hamilton

Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different…

— Gene Sharp

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

— Stephen Moyer

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

— Charles Edward Merriam

Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either…

— Robert Fisk

“My problem is that the human race seems to want to be destroyed!”

— Jhonen Vasquez

To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't…

— Bill Maher

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

— Hamid Karzai

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped…

— Stanley Kubrick

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is…

— Bill O'Reilly

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

— William Blake

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis