Top 20 Shakespearean Drama Quotes
#1. I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around during a live show. I've been trying for years to come up with songs that have the feeling of a Shakespearean drama, so I'm always starting with that.
Bob Dylan
#2. Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.
Anna Akhmatova
#4. The light remains, because "feel" is a word full of traps.
Paulo Coelho
#5. Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged and amused, but primarily, I'm interested in other things. It's the texture of any given moment that fascinates me: what is really going on between people or in somebody's mind.
Deborah Eisenberg
#6. One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to ignore it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#7. A little adversity can't hold me down.
Lamar Odom
#8. You are never a victim, unless you think you are
Elsa Mendoza
#9. In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
Peter Davison
#10. After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity?
Diana Gabaldon
#11. In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
#12. Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.
James C. Collins
#13. Because happiness itself is a mythical construct, a dream you humans tell yourselves to get through each day. It is the moon, and you, like the sun, pursue it relentlessly, chasing it around and around, getting nowhere.
Jessica Khoury
#14. In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.
Christopher Moore
#15. It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
Arthur Cohn
#16. American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.
George Mikes
#17. Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.
Gina Greenlee
#18. Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
#19. The only people who still have all the answers are those who have never been faced with the questions.
Jojo Moyes
#20. 'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.
Michelle Dockery
