Life Is A Play Shakespeare Quotes

#1. Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

Bill Russell

#3. But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

Aldous Huxley

#4. Because of this it has been possible for the play to be read, as it so often has been since the Romantic period, as a credo, an apologia pro vita sua (a justification of his own life), on the part of Shakespeare the dramatist.

William Shakespeare

#5. Amazon tried to combat employee delinquency by using a point system to track how workers performed their jobs. Arriving late cost an employee half a point; failing to show up altogether was three points. Even calling in sick cost a point. An employee who collected six such demerits was let go.

Brad Stone

#6. When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.

Mary Pope Osborne

#7. Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn't remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had been cut from an automobile tire, three knives in her belt.

Emily St. John Mandel

#8. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

Artie Shaw

#9. I'm so sorry." He reached up his hand and covered mine. "No, I'm sorry," he said. "I was about to ruin both our lives.

Kiera Cass

#10. I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!

Clay Aiken

#11. I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

Alex Kingston

#12. My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

Steven Moffat

#13. If they treat us with fear, we are to see their behavior as a call for love.

Marianne Williamson

#14. Mare, don't be such a brat all the time, and stop beating up that Warren boy.

Victoria Aveyard

#15. I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that ... but not as far down as R and X. I think any man who makes an X-rated picture ought to be made to take his own daughter to see it.

John Wayne

#16. I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it ... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.

Chris Adrian

#17. We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.

Donald Alexander

#18. I can't rave enough about Eloisa James. I'm simply in awe of her talent.

Julia Quinn

#19. Going home, it's what everybody's trying to do from the day they're born to the day they die, but going home together - that's marriage.

Fannie Heaslip Lea

#20. And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

James Earl Jones

#21. It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

Phil Daniels

#22. Josh Duhamel is somebody you can't take your eyes off of, and same with T.R. Knight. It's a car that you want to run up to 100 mph, right away.

Bridget Carpenter

#23. Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#24. Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time

William Shakespeare

#25. So if we know no place, no job, no marriage, no child is going to fulfill us perfectly, we can make the choice to quit fighting for happiness in all of it and start to fight for God's glory in it.

Jennie Allen