Chekhov famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.
-- Chad Harbach

#Kindness #Infinite #Chekhov
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
-- Harvey Korman

#Chekhov #Ibsen
I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.
-- Tobias Wolff

#Love #Goes On #Chekhov
I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.
-- Tom Hardy

#Drama #Theatre #Chekhov
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
-- Uta Hagen

#Theatre #Chekhov #Hardest
Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.
-- Vera Farmiga

#Done #Chekhov #Ready
I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.
-- Alexander Weinstein

#Stories #Conflict #Chekhov
Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.
-- John Cameron Mitchell

#Revolutionary #Chekhov #Beckett

The love of her life dissolved into dreams.
It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors concerning a captured UFO and crew members. I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have.
I think when people think of something as basic, they think that it's boring.
Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together.
No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.
It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.
I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.
Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didnâ€™t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.
If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.
I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.