Stage Quotes

3309 Stage quotes by 2413 unique authors

With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to… — Maria Montessori
I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides. — Alexander Smith
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. — James Fallows
Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last. — Robert Breault
Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to… — Alan Vega
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to… — Yi-Fu Tuan
We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old… — Bruce H. Lipton
There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback. — Mary McCormack
Being on stage is so much fun and enjoyable. Because it’s a lot of fun, we work really hard on music programs and our eyes… — Kim Tae-yeon
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage. — John Dryden
Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the… — Jack Layton
It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through. — Ellen Goodman
New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing… — Art Buchwald
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. — Herman Wouk
If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it… — Henry Rollins
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character… — Thornton Wilder
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real… — Thornton Wilder
America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement.… — Martha Graham
How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage. — Florenz Ziegfeld
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by… — Harold Bloom
Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation… — Desmond Morris

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