Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

Al Pacino

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

Al Pacino

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Chris Bohjalian

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Chita Rivera

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

Edith Wharton

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

David Tudor

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

David Hockney

If you are not playful you are not alive.

Audre Lorde

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

Eartha Kitt

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

David Hume

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Beatrice Wood

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Audre Lorde

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

Derek Bailey

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

Denzel Washington

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Karl Eikenberry

When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience,

Alan Shepard

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Edgar Degas

Even in front of nature one must compose.

Pablo Picasso

I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.

David Jeremiah

We are God's productions, His compositions.

Richard Wilbur

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.