Postmodern Theatre Quotes

#1. Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank.

Patrice Pavis

#2. In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.

Jeremy Begbie

#3. Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but ... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'

Robert Wilson

#4. In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.

Philip Auslander

#5. Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Andrew Young

#6. I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

Carol Ann Duffy

#7. Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

Stephen Jay Gould

#8. Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.

David Jeremiah

#9. Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

Tom Stoppard

#10. Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

William Strunk Jr.

#11. Death is buried there into death
Hunger strikes on its own last breath
No spine to shiver, no heart talks
At life's craving poverty mocks

From the poem 'Exhumation

Munia Khan

#12. I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.

Clive Anderson

#13. I did not plan to make the Cube.

Erno Rubik

#14. Some of my ideas get enlarged almost before I have them.

Elizabeth Bowen

#15. Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

William Cowper

#16. ENOUGH!" bellows Zeus and not only stops Ares diatribe , but freezes every god and robot in place. "I'll hear no more whining prattle from you, Ares, you lying, two-faced, treacherous sparrowfart, you miserable excuse for a man, much less for a god.

Dan Simmons

#17. Summertime is a period for youthful explorations, a joyful time when we learn lessons without grand expectations or harsh consequences.

Kilroy J. Oldster