The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary as I…

— Gavin Friday

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it…

— Simon Callow

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language…

— Kenneth Branagh

My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.

— Kenneth Branagh

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a…

— Kenneth Branagh

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether…

— Kenneth Branagh

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

— Kenneth Branagh

“ Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of an elastic…

— William Kingdon Clifford

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

— Walter Scott

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

— Joyce Carol Oates

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely…

— Robert Mondavi

The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes - that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark…

— Frederick Douglass

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of…

— Alexander Smith

The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they…

— August Krogh