When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's true that laptop performances can be boring for the audience. The problem is, the organizers of events are still putting us… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this… — Jon Cryer Copy Share Image
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Every footballer gets injuries - Jordan Henderson has had a tough couple of years. We all have to deal with it at… — Adam Lallana Copy Share Image
The first time I got on stage I was 10 years old and I did impressions. I did cartoon characters and I… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
“would hope that they would know that I’m not the same person in real life that I am on stage. It’s a… — Mara Altman Copy Share Image
There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Life is eternal; death only punctuates it for a short while. After a little break life starts again. Death is ultimate truth;… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer… — John Green Copy Share Image
You know, [skin] happens at the gravy boat stage - right? - or this happens when you're trying to keep it warm.… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don't have a little… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I am going to fight on the pitch for Newcastle and if it comes to the stage where someone says can you… — Sol Campbell Copy Share Image
If one has a routine colonoscopy at the age of 50 and then colonoscopies thereafter as the physician recommends, you could largely… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
Even some of our friends, not only here, but in the international community, in Africa as well, were beginning to show weakness… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always… — Elton John Copy Share Image
It was also great to have the Backstreet Boys appear on stage with me because I have gotten to know them all… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Silence in the turmoil of the theater world made me survive 50 years without speaking on a stage, only to say 'No'… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have enough confidence to do something… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think some people will die on the stage, and I'm not so sure I want to do that. Like, I want… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
We must remove this double standard between the values we say we want to teach our children and those we model for… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so… — David Leslie Copy Share Image
Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do… — Drew Lachey Copy Share Image
I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I've been doing a lot of internet performances... it's really weird for me to not feel the crowd, to not feel the… — Netta Barzilai Copy Share Image
Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would write an opera, maybe because of the words. But yes, I would be really excited to… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image