"Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind.""

-- Martha Ronk

#Play Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Gone Quotes

“When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.”
“Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.”
“If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.”
“You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.”
“the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.”

Source : Leslie Caron (1983). “Vengeance”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
“I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.”
“The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.”

Source : Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.312, Courier Corporation
“I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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