Top 100 Quotes About Shaffer
#1. Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
Curt Weldon
#2. With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer ... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words ... What more can you ask for?
F. Murray Abraham
#3. My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers.
David Letterman
#4. God was singing through this little man to all the world.
Peter Shaffer
#6. My neighbour Evangeline Smythe is going to have twins in June. She is none too happy about it, so I am going to ask her to give one of them to me
Mary Ann Shaffer
#7. We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!
Atticus Shaffer
#8. Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
Peter Shaffer
#9. I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#10. Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.
Atticus Shaffer
#11. Look, life is only comprehensible through a thousand local gods ... spirits of certain trees, of certain curves of brick walls, of certain fish and chip shops if you like. And slate roofs, and frowns in people, and slouches ... I'd say to them, Worship all you can see, and more will appear ...
Peter Shaffer
#12. All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.
Peter Shaffer
#13. We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#14. When you look into the eyes of an animal you've rescued, you can't help but fall in love.
Paul Shaffer
#15. People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears.
Alex Shaffer
#16. Aren't we running out of things to discover? The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is also 'no'. There's still plenty of things we don't know, both large and small.
Andrew Shaffer
#17. I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.
Paul Shaffer
#18. I thought I was in love (that's the pathetic part - my idea of being in love).
Mary Ann Shaffer
#19. But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.
Atticus Shaffer
#20. I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#21. My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer
#22. James Brown was my favorite, my absolute idol. Every time I played with him was like a music lesson, and I never thought I could be so funky! I mean, a white boy from Canada - a Jew - getting down with his funky bad self!
Paul Shaffer
#23. Miss X has always been a ditherer
she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#24. Theatrically, you are aware of every part of you in acting; every component of your surroundings, including the clothes you wear. Eh ... in voiceover, shorts and a t-shirt and badaboom ... done.
Atticus Shaffer
#25. I love to do comedy, but music is really my heart.
Paul Shaffer
#27. All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged
after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#29. Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
Peter Shaffer
#30. Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#31. The Devil isn't made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.
Peter Shaffer
#32. Remy watched the sea breathe in and out. Then she said, "It would have been better for her not to have such a heart." Yes, but worse for the rest of us.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#33. When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.
Peter Shaffer
#35. Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#37. As I brush my long, brown hair, the girl in the mirror with blue eyes too big for her head stares back at me. Wait ... I don't have blue eyes! Then I realize I haven't been looking into the mirror. I've been staring at a poster of Kristen Stewart for five minutes. My own hair is actually fine.
Andrew Shaffer
#38. Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#39. The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.
David Williamson Shaffer
#41. Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter.
David Williamson Shaffer
#42. Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#43. MILO: It comes to the same thing. ANDREW: Things mostly do, you know.
Anthony Shaffer
#44. All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It's a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.
Atticus Shaffer
#45. I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.
Atticus Shaffer
#46. There was Isola in a mad hat and a purple shawl pinned with a glittering brooch. She was smiling fixedly in the wrong direction and I loved her instantly.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#47. People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can
just like mad dogs.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#48. It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thing is, I'm happy that I'm able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.
Atticus Shaffer
#49. I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks with my family or my friends and seeing nature. And that's why I love living where I live because I live up in the desert area in the mountains.
Atticus Shaffer
#51. I still talk incessantly about 'SCTV,' and I say, 'Screw the kids!'
Paul Shaffer
#52. I have a tiny infant of an idea, much too frail and defenseless to risk describing, even to you ... I am going to coddle it and feed it and see if I can make it grow.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#53. All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don't know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#54. He didn't say much at our first meeting - nor at any of our meetings since, come to think of it - but left him into a room, and everyone in it seems to breathe a sigh of relief. I have never in my life had that effect on anyone; I can't imagine why not.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#55. I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.
Atticus Shaffer
#56. My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.
Paul Shaffer
#57. Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#58. I actually met Deadmau5 for the first time on the red carpet in Hollywood for the Grammys. I was there with my daughter, and he introduced himself to me. He said, 'Hey, I'm from Toronto.' I had a little conversation with him, and then I realized I'm talking to a guy with a giant mouse head.
Paul Shaffer
#59. She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!
Mary Ann Shaffer
#60. There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.
Peter Shaffer
#61. When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.
Paul Shaffer
#62. You can purchase my silence with torrid details, you know.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#64. The people are so small, they look like ants (although they're Walmart customers, so they look like obese ants).
Andrew Shaffer
#65. My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.
Atticus Shaffer
#66. All I could do was scream, "How dare you! What have you DONE?! Put my books back!
Mary Ann Shaffer
#67. What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?
Peter Shaffer
#68. I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.
Atticus Shaffer
#69. I am no proof against compliments, especially compliments about my writing. I'll be delighted to dine with you.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#70. What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#71. I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it.
Peter Shaffer
#72. Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet ... it's a tuba among the flutes.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#73. I told him that if one had to ask which, it generally meant neither.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#74. Renegotiating a deal with a Russian is like French-kissing a Kodiak. The Kodiak comes out of it satisfied and you come out of the other end of the Kodiak.
Michael Eves Shaffer
#75. I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.
Peter Shaffer
#76. He hands me his shopping list and I lead him through the store in search of the items. Duct tape? Plastic wrap? A hacksaw? Who is this guy, Dexter?
Andrew Shaffer
#77. Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.
Robert H. Shaffer
#78. Sometimes you have to get out of your routine so God can speak to you in a non-routine way." 9
Georgia Shaffer
#80. To him, freedom was greater than love.
She hated that.
Because she had always thought that love was freedom.
Tessa Shaffer
#81. He wants me to stay in London and go to restaurants and theaters and marry him like a reasonable person.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#82. The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into the sky like a glass and steel erection.
Andrew Shaffer
#83. Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.
Peter Shaffer
#84. It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?"
Atticus Shaffer
#85. No man is an island," he says. "Islands are made of dirt and rocks and trees. I don't know any people made of such things. Therefore, people are not islands.
Andrew Shaffer
#86. Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#87. Oh dear, I want to nuzzle into my sofa, but I have to get up and put on an evening dress.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#88. He's got that way of believing his opinion is the truth, but he's not disagreeable about it. He's too sure he's right to bother being disagreeable.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#89. I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like 'Saw,' I don't like that, I don't.
Atticus Shaffer
#90. I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#91. You don't read, you don't understand. You don't know what it's like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world.
Atticus Shaffer
#92. Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#93. Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
Peter Shaffer
#94. I cannot accept merely ... I do not do anything merely.
Peter Shaffer
#95. I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.
Paul Shaffer
#96. I could tell you more about reading and how it perked up our spirits while the Germans were here.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#98. The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.
Peter Shaffer
#99. I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; Eugene Levy.
Paul Shaffer
#100. Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?
Paul Shaffer
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