Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

John Green

I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

John Mahoney

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Olivia Wilde

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Frederick the Great

simply-quotes FollowI close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Jodi Picoult

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

Henry Rollins

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

Terry Pratchett

Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No one is ever going to give you something that they're too afraid to even claim for themselves. People don't know themselves, so they don't like to see other people figure it out and live their lives in ways that they themselves cannot. So they try to box you in, and limit you, so they don't feel inadequate. But you don't need their approval- the only person who ever, ever limits you is yourself.

Danielle Jordan

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Stephen Hawking

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Matthew Prior