“Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“O join us, friends and mortals, on the scene— Another chapter of our cosmic tale. Luke Skywalker returns to Tatooine, To save… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He's written "He dies." That's all, nothing more.… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
“Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm really proud of the album. It's something I always wanted to do but I had to wait until I was ready.… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say,… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespeare is ruined for most… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
“tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseththe disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I had a fabulous teacher, my headmistress's husband, who taught Shakespeare for A-level, and then I found this person called William Shakespeare… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“Shakespearean tragedies do not deal chiefly with the working-class people and focus mostly on the fall of the kings, princes, generals etc.… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into… — Keala Settle Copy Share Image
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss 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
“And now, these books. This. He touched PHYSIOGNOMONIE. The secrets of the individual's character as found on his face. Were Jim and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“It seems only fair," Matthew continued. "A bit of karma, if you will." He twirled the stake again. "Shall we see how… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“He quite certainly shouldn't care: and still he feels a hot sick bubbling in his gut, as if he'd drunk turned milk,… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
“If we knew thoroughly the nervous system of Shakespeare . . . we should be able to show why . . .… — William James Copy Share Image
“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
