Playgoers Quotes

#1. Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

Brooks Atkinson

#2. Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.

Terry Teachout

#3. Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers ...

Vernon Lee

#4. I suspect that most playgoers don't understand how inexact a science literary translation is. Even the simplest of lines may lend itself to multiple renderings.

Terry Teachout

#5. Life is not about money.

Andrew Mason

#6. You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Carrie Fisher

#7. Around the mighty master came
The marvels which his pencil wrought,
Those miracles of power whose fame
Is wide as human thought.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#8. I'm at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don't want to define myself by any category, or age, or role.

Leven Rambin

#9. But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

Steven D. Levitt

#10. If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Ray Bradbury