Adamov Quotes

#1. Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.

Arthur Adamov

#2. The 'role of the theatre' is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as a recreation. This seems satisfactory. TOM STOPPARD 1993

Tom Stoppard

#3. Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

Trevor Dunn

#4. Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Michel De Certeau

#5. The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Arthur Adamov

#6. Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

Don Cheadle

#7. Things always happen in series.

Arthur Adamov

#8. A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.

Walter Savage Landor

#9. What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from
I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Arthur Adamov

#10. Why do we always fight?" she whispered.
"You know why." Yeah, she did. "It's science." "Combustible chemistry," he agreed. "Dangerous.

Jill Shalvis

#11. A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.

Arthur Adamov

#12. The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.

Arthur Adamov

#13. I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don't have to work as hard at my primary school.

Arthur Adamov

#14. Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determined to remove any ambiguities over our nuclear ambitions and also protect our right.

Hamid-Reza Assefi

#15. In the years ahead we would have rough patches, but we were determined to get through them.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#16. Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

Lord Byron

#17. Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Arthur Adamov

#18. I think different. And I can think different if I want to.

Stephen King

#19. Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Bruce Lee

#20. Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

Arthur Adamov

#21. The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything ... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.

Arthur Adamov

#22. The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

Arthur Adamov

#23. It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.

Arthur Adamov

#24. The cage of circumstances suddenly did not feel so confined. It felt less lonely knowing we both have had our wings clipped.

Elise Icten

#25. He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.

Lisa Genova

#26. Indeed, the first thing you might learn, in considering jokes, is that Marcel Duchamp's urinal was one - quite a good one the first time around, corny by mid-twentieth century, and downright stupid today.

Roger Scruton