James Shapiro Quotes

#1. Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects?

James Shapiro

#2. WHEN SCHOLARS TALK ABOUT THE SOURCES OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS, they almost always mean printed books like Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles

James Shapiro

#3. You there was, or might be, such a man / As this I dreamt of?" - he can only answer like a Roman, "Gentle madam, no,

James Shapiro

#4. I am a man more sinned against than sinning" (Lear, 9.60).

James Shapiro

#5. Lear wills his own death: "Break, heart, I prithee break

James Shapiro

#6. A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

Evander Holyfield

#7. I hate crew cuts.

Douglas Preston

#8. Bend over backward, do a favor, and give and build confidence in people. It's a time to compliment, support and acknowledge the good things people do.

Erwin K. Thomas

#9. Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.

Laura Shapiro

#10. No bishop, no king"; he might have added, "No devil, no divine right.

James Shapiro

#11. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry

James Shapiro

#12. Antony and Cleopatra: "what love, what accomplishments, what repetitions of natural affections passed between them is not for vulgar minds to imagine, none but so great hearts know them.

James Shapiro

#13. First, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my speech. My fear is your displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons.

James Shapiro

#14. The Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer. The current justices have all been chosen from the lower federal courts. A nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the court.

Harry Reid

#15. Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one.

James Shapiro

#16. Like every great writer before or since, Jonson understood that the best poets 'are both made and born'. That all great writing has to be hammered out and all great poets stand or fall by that 'second heat', their laboured revision.

James Shapiro

#17. No matter what happened to you, no matter what horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl.

Karin Slaughter

#18. There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations
[Article : "In the Details . . . What?"]

James A. Shapiro

#19. And my poor fool is hanged. No, no life. / Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, / And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no more. / Never, never, never. Pray you, undo / This button. Thank you, sir. O, O, O, O!

James Shapiro

#20. Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general. What has emerged in our time as a dominant form of life writing can trace its lineage back to this extended footnote.

James Shapiro

#21. The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life.

Bill Maher

#22. Your religious book(s) mentioned the power of mind thousands of years ago so WHY do you have to wait until the science proves it in the 21st century? Let others wait to realize/prove the facts not you.

Maddy Malhotra

#23. he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation.

James Shapiro

#24. A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

R.J. Palacio

#25. Nothing could be as hard as middle school.

Zooey Deschanel

#26. Shakespeare didn't conceive of his tragedy in Aristotelian terms - that is, as a tragedy of the fall of a flawed great man - but rather as a collision of deeply held and irreconcilable principles, embodied in characters who are destroyed when these principles collide.

James Shapiro

#27. What else is there to do in this world but love other people?

James E. Shapiro

#28. You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

Richard Paul Evans