Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Santayana

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

George Jean Nathan

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

Adam Rayner

That's the great thing about university: you've got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.

Marshall McLuhan

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

Marshall McLuhan

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

Maria Callas

My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.

Paul Greengrass

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

Julia Sawalha

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

Kathy Bates

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

Shane Smith

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

Philip Pullman

It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.

Kevin J. Anderson

SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure.

Lewis Carroll

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

Paul Verlaine

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

John Byrne

Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)

Joan Baez

As long as we keep searching, the answers come.

Louise Hay

My life is a glorious adventure.

Lloyd Alexander

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

Narendra Modi

I am seeing that Gandhi is looking through these specs that whether we have made India clean or not, what we have done and what we have done.

Narendra Modi

I haven't done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

Henry Rollins

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

Henry Rollins

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

Henry Rollins

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Man Ray

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

Mandy Patinkin

The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

Mahatma Gandhi

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.