Unperformed Quotes

#1. In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

Tom Stoppard

#2. If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Is truth here
In the ugly unseemliness?
The graceless moments
Before and after
Eyes are watching?
In the unballerina
The unperformed?

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#4. Unperformed experiments have no results.

Asher Peres

#5. I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all right; it didn't harm me too much.

Ed Speleers

#6. Jews were emphatically second-class subjects of the Tsar. A Pale of Settlement, outside which Jews were not supposed to reside, had been established by Catherine II in 1791, though it was not precisely delineated until 1835. It consisted of Russian-controlled Poland

Niall Ferguson

#7. There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

Martin Scorsese

#8. The memory of sacred moment is unforgettable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Playing basketball is definitely one of my favorite things to do.

Common

#10. It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

Russ Feingold

#11. P. T. Forsyth's book Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind. These are its opening words: 'It is, perhaps, an overbold beginning, but I will venture to say that with its preaching Christianity stands or falls.

John R.W. Stott

#12. Can't a bad guy do a good thing?

Tera Lynn Childs

#13. In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Best things in life aren't things.

Mike Ness

#15. I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

Viggo Mortensen

#16. Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.

Ed Crane

#17. Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Barbara Kingsolver