Shakespeare's Finest Quotes

#1. I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare's finest characters, but, hey, that's the way it has happened.

Catherine Tate

#2. The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Daniel Hannan

#3. The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

Michael Foley

#4. I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.

K.d. Lang

#5. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

Allen Wheelis

#6. Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud
The eating canter dwells, so eating love
Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

William Shakespeare

#7. A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Immanuel Kant

#8. Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

Spencer W. Kimball

#9. Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

Bob Keeshan

#10. Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove.

William Shakespeare

#11. I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

Eric Idle

#12. Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands.

Stevie Nicks

#13. A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

Noam Chomsky

#14. Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love; we cannot call her winds and waters, sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report ...

William Shakespeare

#15. Our understanding of the universe is like a tale without beginning or end, where the reader creates the script as he reads along. It's like the act of creation was more like an act of facilitation, where Love (divinity) is the facilitator and mankind's mind, with its free will, is the co-creator.

Ivan Figueroa-Otero

#16. I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.

Garth Greenwell