Quotes of: Shakespeare Keyword

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!

George Bernard Shaw

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

Jeanette Winterson

To do is to be – Aristotle To be or not to be – Shakespeare To be is to do – Jean-Paul Sartre Do be do be do – Frank Sinatra

Alannah Foley

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

Lee Hall

Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my heart to Job's cry, or to ...

Faith of a Heretic

The language of Shakespeare is the first and lasting affirmation of the great changes that took place in the sixteenth century, leaving the Middle English of Chaucer far behind. In many ways, the language has changed less in the 400 years since Shake...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

All achievers had plans that they clearly listed or outlined and run to their fulfillment. If you want to make it as they did, you have to make a plan that defines your purpose; you must write out and clearly define who you are and who you want to be...

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

This is the book, then , and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your child--even though you yourself do not understand what is written down and cannot sound the words properly. You must do this that the child will ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I. But when thou sayest fool remember well That fools do walk in foolish company. So if I am a fool, perhaps ’tis true That other fools around me may be found.

William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope

All I've learned in today's Shakespeare class is: Sometimes you have to fall in love with the wrong person just so you can find the right person. A more useful lesson would've been: Sometimes the right person doesn't love you back. Or sometimes the r...

As You Wish

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had...

Ishmael Beah

Shakespeare,” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.

The Daylight Gate

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

Revolution

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Shakespeare and Modern Culture

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

The Sun Watches the Sun

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

In One Person

I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted for what is a fantastically elegant and sexy yacht.

John Caudwell

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

Tim Crouch

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

Joss Whedon

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Lisa M. Collins

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

Michael J. Saylor