Top 100 Shaffer's Quotes

#1. God was singing through this little man to all the world.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #12647
#2. Is better to know the truth that live in uncertainty.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #17819
#3. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #36314
#4. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #37375
#5. Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #40556
#6. I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #40905
#7. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #41557
#8. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #46890
#9. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #48161
#10. We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #50795
#11. When you look into the eyes of an animal you've rescued, you can't help but fall in love.

Paul Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #59558
#12. People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears.

Alex Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #62121
#13. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #64725
#14. I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

Paul Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #72302
#15. I thought I was in love (that's the pathetic part - my idea of being in love).

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #73748
#16. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #76832
#17. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #81836
#18. My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #88737
#19. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #94857
#20. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #97504
#21. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #100606
#22. I love to do comedy, but music is really my heart.

Paul Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #102147
#23. I never met a man half so true as a dog.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #103569
#24. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #106858
#25. Jealous of a bitty bird, he was.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #111166
#26. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #134854
#27. Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #135629
#28. The Devil isn't made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #140884
#29. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #145263
#30. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #153568
#31. When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #153875
#32. She hands me a security badge that says VIRGIN.

Andrew Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #186915
#33. Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #192635
#34. I've never had a plan for the future.

Paul Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #196084
#35. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #199726
#36. Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #212328
#37. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #217627
#38. Not even the Germans could ruin the sea.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #218504
#39. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #221747
#40. Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #227404
#41. MILO: It comes to the same thing. ANDREW: Things mostly do, you know.

Anthony Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #248813
#42. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #256051
#43. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #261665
#44. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #263850
#45. People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can
just like mad dogs.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #273668
#46. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #282058
#47. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #298404
#48. Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #299414
#49. I still talk incessantly about 'SCTV,' and I say, 'Screw the kids!'

Paul Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #302122
#50. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #302438
#51. All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don't know whether to feel flattered or hunted.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #307770
#52. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #322031
#53. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #324644
#54. My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

Paul Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #328223
#55. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #333633
#56. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #342941
#57. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #348221
#58. There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #349311
#59. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #351724
#60. You can purchase my silence with torrid details, you know.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #362137
#61. You have your words, and I have mine.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #378996
#62. The people are so small, they look like ants (although they're Walmart customers, so they look like obese ants).

Andrew Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #395439
#63. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #475521
#64. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #485830
#65. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #595237
#66. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #604773
#67. The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #666580
#68. Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #717803
#69. I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #758946
#70. Life goes on. What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #768858
#71. Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #777217
#72. If the food supply runs out, try trapping or hunting animals. For most people, this won't be easy. If you can't catch any animals, it's time to throw a Donner party.

Andrew Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #808984
#73. What if you suddenly saw a two-ton great white shark barreling through the air toward your face? Such a sight defies all logic. "That's fake," you mumble. Your brain shorts out. Your legs won't move. Without this book, the best you can hope for is to be killed in a dry pair of underwear.

Andrew Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #811894
#74. He's always had more than his fair share of what we call cheek and what Americans call can-do spirit.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #908109
#75. I swear, Sophie, I think there's something wrong with me. Every man I meet is intolerable. Perhaps I should set my sights lower[ ... ]

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #932520
#76. You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #933543
#77. He is so shy, Juliet. He always has been-I don't think anybody's ever been in love with him, or him with anybody before, so he'd not know the right thing to do about it. It'd be just like him to hide away mementos and never say a word. I despair for him, I do.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #934342
#78. I myself have never had one, but now I can picture one. I didn't like Wuthering Heights at first, but the minute that specter, Cathy, scrabbled her bony fingers on the window glass - I was grasped by the throat and not let go. With that Emily I could hear Heathcliff's pitiful cries upon the moors.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #935571
#79. Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world?

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #975762
#80. Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - When adding eggs, break the shells first.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #979141
#81. If it's dive-bombing you from the air, bury yourself in the sand. It might lose sight of you. Also, no one likes to eat food covered in sand. No one.

Andrew Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #998748
#82. The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1005691
#83. That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1104963
#84. 3. When making your dramatic exit, crawl along one of the web strands that extend outward from the center. Avoid the webbing that runs in concentric circles, as it's the stickiest.
4. Once you've escaped, say something snarky to the queen, like "Sorry I couldn't stick around.

Andrew Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1237165
#85. You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'

Paul Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1257132
#86. After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1266467
#87. Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1293505
#88. As to that Sidney, he sounds a very fine man - but bossy. It's a failing common in men.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1329721
#89. Grandpa, that's something I never am." I asked him, "What's that?" And he said, "Lonesome in my spirits." Eli to Eben

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1368220
#90. That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1443680
#91. It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him ... he never bores me, and he doesn't ... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1458307
#92. Everybody should have a shelter dog. It's good for the soul.

Paul Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1471121
#93. Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1476234
#94. On the page, I'm perfectly charming, but that's just a trick I learned. It has nothing to do with me.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1501069
#95. Stop it, girl. There's no way he's five-years-old. Or one hundred. He's probably like every other CEO on the planet: Late twenties, handsome in that geeky sort of way, and just as awkward as you. I breathe a sigh of relief, because I know I'm probably right.

Andrew Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1517764
#96. Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain.

Andrew Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1646285
#97. I suppose I do have a suitor, but I'm not really used to him yet. He's terribly charming and he plies me with delicious meals, but I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1673935
#98. I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.

Atticus Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1715277
#99. Look ... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!' ...

Peter Shaffer

Shaffer's Quotes #1728451
#100. 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

Shaffer's Quotes #1770682

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top