Summer Stock Quotes

#1. It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

Arne Glimcher

#2. I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

Randy Harrison

#3. Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work.

Susan Egan

#4. I don't subscribe much to the belief that things happen for a reason, that there's some higher power at the controls, directing all of us like we're in some cosmic summer stock production. Shit just happens is more or less my philosophy.

Linwood Barclay

#5. I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

Andrea Martin

#6. It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.

Christopher Reeve

#7. It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

William Shatner

#8. I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.

Donna Murphy

#9. I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.

Al Capone

#10. Indeed, it is evident that the mere passage of time itself is destructive rather than generative [ ... ] because change is primarily a 'passing away.' So it is only incidentally that time is the cause of things coming into being and existing.

Aristotle.

#11. When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

Shirley Franklin

#12. In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. Cancers of all types among women are increasing.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#14. If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.

Sholom Aleichem

#15. If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV.

Craig Groeschel

#16. Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

Gore Vidal

#17. It'll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we're still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.

Patricia Briggs

#18. Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

George Will

#19. What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

George Washington

#20. It's important to remember that the future of quality journalism is not dependent on the future of newspapers. The discussion needs to move from "How do we save newspapers?" to "How do we save and strengthen journalism?" - however it is delivered.

Arianna Huffington

#21. Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#22. What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

A. Theodore Tuttle

#23. It had come back to him simply that what he had been looking at all summer was a very rich and beautiful world, and that it had not all been made by sharp railroad men and stock-brokers.

Henry James