Quotes of Stage - somelinesforyou

“ The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic. ”

- Nia Vardalos

“ Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ”

- Auguste Comte

“ Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step. ”

- Daniel D. Palmer

“ The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. ”

- Harold Clurman

“ If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy. ”

- Fitzhugh Dodson

“ The elderly are being subsidized to an astonishing degree. ”

- George Will

“ When I was in a play in a theater, and all was going well on stage, I felt that the audience and I were somehow joined into one. ”

- Conrad Veidt

“ Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible — even when those steps are taken on the run. ”

- Anne W. Schaef

“ Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme. ”

- David Garrick

“ Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ”

- Julius Charles Hare

“ This is our home city. You get to do this once. We don't see our current financial situation as a reason to not utilize this world stage that we paid to play on. ”

- Kevin Smith

“ Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution. ”

- Robert Schuller

“ There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man. ”

- Sammy Davis Jr.

“ A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist. ”

- Konstantin Stanislavisky

“ After all, the world is not a stage — not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches… and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show… ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again. ”

- Jerome Lawrence

“ The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete language to speak. I say that this concrete language, intended for the senses and independent of speech, has first to satisfy the senses, that there is a poetry of the senses as there is a poetry of language, and that this concrete physical language to which I refer is truly theatrical only to the degree that the thoughts it expresses are beyond the reach of the spoken language… ”

- Antonin Artaud

“ The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throat of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we are ourselves the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth? ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps. ”

- Ninette De Valois

“ The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye… On stage, you can't really control where the viewer's eye goes; there's a whole stage picture there, and the viewer can be looking anywhere. But with the camera, if you want the viewer to look at something in particular, you can put their eye there. ”

- August Wilson

“ All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. ”

- Sean O’Casey

“ The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. ”

- Norman Brenner

“ Books…are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. ”

- Dorothy L. Sayers

“ All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer
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