"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong."

-- John Osborne

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.”
“If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.”
“I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.”
“In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.”
“Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.”
“Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.”
“Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.”

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