G. Wilson Knight famous quotes
50 minutes ago
-
A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.
-- G. Wilson Knight -
It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.
-- G. Wilson Knight
-
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
-
I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
-
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...
-
Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.
-
I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
-
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
-
The theatre and traveling through my modeling jobs, all of those experiences have helped a lot actually.
-
The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.
-
Tut, Tut, looks like rain
-
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
You may also like:
-
Adam Nicolson
Author -
Edward Lear
Artist -
Eric Partridge
Lexicographer -
Frank Kermode
Literary critic -
Hans Christian Andersen
Author -
Henrik Ibsen
Playwright -
Jan Kott
Critic -
John Cowper Powys
Novelist -
Northrop Frye
Literary critic -
Stephen Greenblatt
Literary critic -
William Empson
Literary critic -
William Wordsworth
Poet