Word Plays Quotes

#1. It is an old saying, "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword"; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.

Robert Burton

#2. To read Shakespeare is to feel encompassed -- the plays contain practically every word I know, practically every character type I have ever met, and practically every idea I have ever had.

Kenji Yoshino

#3. I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Lou Reed

#4. I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.

Mario Cuomo

#5. Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

Stella Adler

#6. The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.

Steven Soderbergh

#7. Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays

Friedrich Schiller

#8. One of the rules of plays, I feel, is to never use an extra word if you don't have to.

Edward Einhorn

#9. I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.

Tom Stoppard

#10. What was the constant?
Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. The
pendulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flow
of time completely ...

Mitch Albom

#11. I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.

Kenneth Clarke

#12. Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Friedrich Schiller

#13. We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.

Gloria Steinem

#14. The fact that the Hebrew word 'adam', meaning 'man', is identical with Adam as the name of the father of Seth plays a fundamental role in fusing the three stories (Gen 2:7-3:24, 4:1, 4:25 and 5:1) in one.

Kamal Salibi

#15. It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

Vera Farmiga

#16. So, do you have to send The Piano Man the secret code word to come down?"
"Did you just call Josh The Piano Man?"
"Well, I thought we should have a code name for him in case anyone's listening when we talk about you, and your mom said he plays the piano.

Jennifer Comeaux

#17. My favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships.

Jeannette Walls

#18. Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

Anna D. Shapiro

#19. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

George Orwell

#20. He bought her a bottle of lime pickle which seems to me a very intimate thing to do; it suggests he knows what she likes to taste.

Deborah Levy

#21. My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.

Hermes Trismegistus

#22. Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

Mallory Ortberg

#23. 'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.

Holliday Grainger

#24. The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#25. When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a poet, it's all about love and pain, but if you're a kid it's, "Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?"

Mike Birbiglia

#26. For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Jamaica Kincaid

#27. I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

Tony Kushner

#28. Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

Jane Jacobs

#29. You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn't exist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#30. Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Ann-Marie MacDonald