Gynt Quotes

#1. I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

Leo McKern

#2. Only to have a grief
equal to all these tears!
There's not a sob in my chest.
Dry hearted Peer Gynt
I pare away, no hero,
merely a cook.

Adrienne Rich

#3. Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

Patti Smith

#5. Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic..

Tim Minchin

#6. Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

Ron Suskind

#7. But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

Alan Bennett

#8. Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the side. She sold these from a stall in Kota Bharu. Her main wares were various types of fruit fried in batter, but if you bought five pisang or cempedak goreng, she threw in a jampi for free.

Zen Cho

#9. Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

Maya Lin

#10. You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

Charles Kennedy