"In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go."

-- Beatrice Lillie

#Laughter Quotes #Mind Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.”
“It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.60, Faber & Faber
“I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.”

Source : James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”
“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.”
“What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!”

Source : Susan Fenimore Cooper (1850). “Rural Hours”, p.202
“Doing right is never wrong.”
“...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.53, Penguin
“Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.”

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