Civilization Quote by Richard Foreman Download Open image “My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.” — Richard Foreman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture Expression Feelings Play Twilight Ultimate Western Western civilization
I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light… — David Farr Copy Share Image
The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Play is primal. It’s not a frivolous pastime—it’s a radical act of reclaiming joy and creativity in a world that often feels too serious.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've been familiar with western fantasy novels since I was a boy. — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play. — Rutina Wesley Copy Share Image
Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York.… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image