Routledge Quotes

#1. The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: "Who is in his place?" - Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge,

Umberto Eco

#2. Routledge Performance Practitioners is an innovative series of introductory handbooks on key figures in twentieth-century performance practice. Each volume focuses on a theater-maker whose practical and theoretical work has in some way transformed the way we understand theater and performance.

Karen K. Bradley

#3. invariably the superior in right of her sex, and

George Routledge

#4. Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

Geoff Ryman

#5. The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

Mason Cooley

#6. Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

Laurence Sterne

#7. I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like 'An American Werewolf in London' in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.

James Roday

#8. Information is the religion of the modern world.

David Lodge

#9. Talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.

Greta Garbo

#11. Don't worry about the negative people may say about you. Learn from it and move on.

Amanda Penland

#12. Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

Iris Murdoch

#13. I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?

Craig Finn

#14. In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it ... and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

Grace Llewellyn

#15. A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

Aime Cesaire

#16. Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It puts what should be above things as they are.
It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.

Czeslaw Milosz