"Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater."

-- Wole Soyinka

#Firsts Quotes #Alive Quotes #Theater Quotes

“Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?”
“Everyone likes a bit of competition.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people.”
“Designers shouldnâ€™t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.”
“We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to anticipate with preventive action!... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over...”
“The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.”
“The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you donâ€™t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. Heâ€™ll use his word, and if I understand it, Iâ€™ll say, â€œOh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?”
“For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2017). “Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances”, p.155, Wildside Press LLC

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