Quotes About Commedia

#1. The Commedia , it must be remembered, is a vision of the progress of man's soul toward perfection.

Dante Alighieri

#2. I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell'arte play. I was given some small chances.

Lena Dunham

#3. (Greek) Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we're part of an acting tradition and, and performance capture is no different.

Andy Serkis

#4. I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.

Troy Garity

#5. I myself do not believe that the Torah is any more or less the revealed Word of God than are Dante's Commedia, Shakespeare's King Lear, or Tolstoy's novels, all works of comparable literary sublimity

Harold Bloom

#6. I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Jane Goodall

#7. You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

Tony Abbott

#8. Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

Hillary DePiano

#9. Since we're playing that game ... I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze.
"Do you have to sneeze?" he asked.
"Be quiet. I'm pretending to enjoy your company, just as you said."
"Try not to strain anything."
"Oh, I won't. I'm very good at faking it."
That shut him up.

Ilona Andrews

#10. I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

Tony Gilroy

#11. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him.

William Golding

#12. They'll like it even less if I hear any words from them, I said. You have to be firm with colonial troops: they have only as much backbone as their commanding officer.

Charles Stross

#13. I think I don't have as much to prove now.

Miranda Lambert

#14. As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to understand it.

George Herman

#15. For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Barney Frank

#16. I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#17. If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

Ludwig Von Mises

#18. I do not care to be admired causelessly, emotionally, intuitively, instinctively - or blindly. I do not care for blindness in any form, I have too much to show - or for deafness, I have too much to say. I do not care to be admired by anyone's heart - only by someone's head.

Ayn Rand

#19. The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.

George Herman

#20. I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

Brian Ferneyhough

#21. Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Thomas Clifford Allbutt