"It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater."

-- Edward Albee

#Lazy Quotes #Theater Quotes

“Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.”
“[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.”
“until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
“The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.”

Source : Song: A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be Free, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004
“How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.”
“I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.”

Source : "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.
“A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.”
“How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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