Tennessee Williams Plays Quotes

#1. I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'

Ruth Rendell

#2. 'Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.'

John Lahr

#3. Being Queen is your destiny. It requires a great deal of strength, and your decisions cannot be based on emotions.

Diana S. Zimmerman

#4. It takes longer to build a relationship
than it does to destroy one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years later. Tennessee Williams did that all the time, and it's distressing, because I'd like the play to be out there in its finished form.

Horton Foote

#6. It's not possible to see everything physically. If you need more money you need to tap into the higher vibration. You will be amazed once the manifestation starts.

Hina Hashmi

#7. I'm a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry's poetry. It doesn't have to be called a poem, you know.

Tennessee Williams

#8. Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

Jacki Weaver

#9. This omission of Asian Americans from history can lead to Asian American students in college internalizing the belief that they have not contributed to and are not full members of society or higher education.

Samuel D. Museus

#10. The guy you're really supposed to be with can be standing right in front of you and you don't even notice because you're too distracted by the one you think you're supposed to be with.

Jessica Brody

#11. You know it don't take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?

Tennessee Williams

#12. The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.

William S. Knudsen

#13. The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

Eloisa James

#14. This girl who stands so quiet and grave at the mouth of hell. This girl who is all quietness and sanity and innocence. You wondered why I wanted her?

Charlotte Bronte

#15. When I had that attack of pleurosis - he asked me what was the matter when I came back. I said pleurosis - he thought that I said Blue Roses! So that's what he always called me after that. Whenever he saw me, he'd holler, Hello, Blue Roses!

Tennessee Williams

#16. Keep your hopes up. Or down. Wherever you want them to be. Just have hope somewhere.

Toby Turner

#17. I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.

Alice Meynell

#18. It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

Tennessee Williams

#19. I loved you so much right then Sam Roth.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. The ancient world was settled so sparsely that nature was not yet eclipsed by man. Nature hit you in the eye so plainly and grabbed you so fiercely and so tangibly by the scruff of the neck that perhaps it really was still full of gods.

Boris Pasternak

#21. Basically, I reduced my needs.

Robin S. Sharma

#22. The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#23. Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

Tennessee Williams

#24. There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.

Cecelia Ahern