"In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives."

-- Anatole Broyard

#Writing Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life.”

Source : "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life". Book by Steven C. Hayes, 2005.
“Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.”

Source : Edwin Arnold, “Destiny”
“Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.”
“I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.”
“What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.”

Source : Song: Soar, Album: Stripped
“When you do something that people watch and enjoy as children, that's great because it stays with you, throughout your life. The things you loved as a child stay with you, and so do the people who were in those things.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?”
“I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.”

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