From a little spark may burst a flame.
When God was creating fathers, He started with a tall frame. An angel nearby said, What kind of father is that? If you
Erma Bombeck, attributed
Father...knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
Bill Cosby
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Va
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Enid Bagnold, Autobiography, ch.
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
Sarah Bernhardt, Memories of My
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt, The Art of the
There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.
Lydia Maria Child, Letter; publi
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
Isadora Duncan, My Life, ch. 5,
The world's a theatre, the earth a stage,Which God and nature do with actors fill
John Heywood
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Kenneth Tynan, Tynan Right and L
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Thornton Wilder
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.
Reviewers...must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.
Walter Kerr, Statement quoted in
Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.
John Morley
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
Kenneth Tynan, Recalled on his d
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.
Orson Welles
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Thomas Love Peacock
I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Norman Vincent Peale
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.
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