Equal Quote by Gore Vidal

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

“Shakespeare = We all make his”

— Anonymous

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

— Mary Ruefle

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

— Edward Bond

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

— Edward Thomson

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

— Adam DeVine

Shakespeare is universal.

— Harold Bloom

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways…

— Harold Bloom

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

— Thomas Cole