Order Quote by Billy Strayhorn Download Open image “In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.” — Billy Strayhorn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Order Play Unique Writing
Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at. — David Hare Copy Share Image
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. — Billy Strayhorn Copy Share Image
A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend. — Billy Strayhorn Copy Share Image
Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment. — Billy Strayhorn Copy Share Image
I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in… — Billy Strayhorn Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. — George Washington Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
