Quotes of: National-theatre Keyword

My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.

Usain Bolt

We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds.

Love

Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?

Life

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

Victor Davis Hanson

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

John F. Kennedy

Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.

Mitt Romney

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

bell hooks

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Coretta Scott King

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Arthur Henderson

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

Adam Schiff

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

Jim Walsh

I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to ...

Casting Fortune

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for tho...

Cosmotheoros: or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants of the planets

Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just me...

A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

The Frenchman showed her a great deal of Paris that day, saying over lunch at a café that it was impossible to see everything of interest in so short a time. "And of course the sights are only one aspect; there's also the theatre, the markets, clubs...

The Frenchman

I had such a hard time giving all the glory to God when first accepting Him as Lord. Coming out of a theatre background where there were many applauds and accolades, I suffered from what I call "attention-itis" - the need for recognition. It took man...

God, Am I Nobody?

Where did my friend go? Was there a place they all gathered, the lost and self destructive? Was there a room they put them in? Necks burnt with rope or holes in their skulls. Beach-water bloated. I will know this at the end of my conversation with li...

How It Feels

He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them say, that the little theatre at Fairport was to open with the performance of a young gentleman, being his first appearance on any stage.—If t...

The Antiquary

Outside, the sunlight had turned pale lemon, but the studio remained cool. The white walls and white-tiled splashback behind the sink were made more clinical by the metal tables which looked as if they’d originally been intended for use in an opera...

Move Over Darling

In the remote towns of the west there are few of the amenities of civilization; there is no sewerage, there are no hospitals, rarely a doctor; the food is dreary and flavourless from long carrying, the water is bad; electricity is for the few who can...

Wake in Fright

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting t...

C.S. Lewis