Century Theater Quotes

#1. J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and dramatists alike.

Jeffrey K. Zeig

#2. 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

#3. I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#4. The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows.

Bill Johnson

#5. I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

Michael Jackson

#6. Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

Stephen Harper

#7. Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

Ogden Nash

#8. so we can share ourselves openly and honestly.

Mike Van

#9. I'm proud of my sexuality.

Adam Lambert

#10. After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

Peter Vecsey

#11. Reality had run and got Sanity.

Marian Keyes

#12. Mine each experience for treasure,
and by the time you are old you will be rich.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.

Mickey Rourke

#14. I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.

James Bobin

#15. It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them.

Stephen Jay Gould

#16. Routledge Performance Practitioners is an innovative series of introductory handbooks on key figures in twentieth-century performance practice. Each volume focuses on a theater-maker whose practical and theoretical work has in some way transformed the way we understand theater and performance.

Karen K. Bradley

#17. The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

Alexander Hamilton

#18. Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. How much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

Louise Bogan

#20. Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

Jim Morrison

#21. Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

John Oliver