Krapp's Quotes

#1. I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.
(Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.)
Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.

Samuel Beckett

#2. Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

Samuel Beckett

#3. The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

John Buchan

#4. Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

Samuel Beckett

#5. In every congregation, spiritual problems and physical needs exist for which the only solution is believing, persistent prayer.

Alexander Strauch

#6. As though I had displeased the gods with my erotic hubris, I managed to be the only bisexual girl in the history of colleges who failed to arouse the interest of the campus queers immediately upon setting foot in the dorms.

Valentine Glass

#7. I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.

Vanessa Hudgens

#8. I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

Sally Ride

#9. Tears will do you no good.

Rebecca Wells

#10. TIME
Time
goes round and round
the spinning clock,
until the fateful day
time
folds it's tired hands
and
stops.

Carolee Dean

#11. I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments.

Samuel Beckett

#12. If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

Ron Fairly

#13. How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

Samuel Beckett

#14. Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

Harry Harrison

#15. And in love, it is easier to relinquish a feeling than to give up a habit.

Marcel Proust

#16. We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

Mary Pipher

#17. I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

Samuel Beckett

#18. Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

Alice Walker