Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth. — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
“...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for history - not just… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things.… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
If someone said, "Here, you have your pick, you can do either a musical, Moulin Rouge type of movie, where you sing… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering… — Rosemary Verey Copy Share Image
Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
