I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar WildeDivers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.'
Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening.
Excursions', said Magrat patienly.
Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said.
Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.
We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom RobbinsTags: plays
The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.
Suzan-Lori ParksMaggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Tennessee WilliamsTags: plays
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
Tom StoppardTags: existentialism plays stoppard
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
George Bernard ShawI, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics.
Alison LarkinTags: politics violence poverty cruelty plays conservatism thoughts musicals handbags
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
L.M. ElliottTags: reading music poetry novels plays
We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.
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