Canopus Quotes

#1. In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction ...

Aaron Sorkin

#3. Being a novelty had its advantages.

Jessica Savitch

#4. Expressing our feelings out loud, especially to someone else, can bring a sense of relief. There is power in proclamation.

Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#5. No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.

Camille Paglia

#6. The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

Colin Firth

#7. As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.

Wang Shi

#8. Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Cleopatra

#9. If you keep pushing away the ones who are trying to love you, eventually, they'll stop trying.

Elizabeth Bourgeret