Theatre Thornton Wilder Quotes

#1. I'd like to direct more operas.

Simon Callow

#2. When faced with your imminent death, the wise man reaches into the depths of his soul, grabs his sword, and does what is proper. The gods have a way of treating you like a two-penny whore on payday, but at least you might face the experience with the faintest bit of dignity.

Terry Mancour

#3. Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

John Frusciante

#4. A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

Thornton Wilder

#5. The angel of death had cruised him. Death, that hustler, that last lover.

Patricia Nell Warren

#6. Is it possible to get over a voice like this? Someday, I'd like to be able to hear her speak a sentence on the phone with out it making me want to hang up, get in my car, and drive as many miles as it takes to kiss her.

Nina LaCour

#7. Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.

Mason Cooley

#8. This is so unbearably inconvenient," he says. "I was prepared to hate him for the rest of my life.

Tahereh Mafi

#9. My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing ... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Lady Gaga

#10. I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Asif Ali Zardari

#11. Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world!

Taylor Swift

#12. O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.
-Augustine St. Clare

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#13. I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

Kathy Griffin

#14. Where the hell are the singing cats?

Paul Newman

#15. I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Thornton Wilder

#16. The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

Thornton Wilder

#17. We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

Louise Doughty

#18. I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. This supremacy of the theater derives from the fact that it is always "now" on the stage.

Thornton Wilder