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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole: The mellow glory of the Attic stage; Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Where's the stage and what's the play?
But, thanks to wine-less and democracy, We've still our stage where truth calls spade a spade!
David, you are an actor everywhere but upon the stage.
Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington, Don't put your daughter on the stage.
Soit donc que vous composiez, soit donc que vous jouiez, ne pensez non plus au spectateur que s'il n'existait pas. Imaginez sur le bord du the a" tre, un grand mur qui vous se pare du parterre; jouez comme si la toile ne se levait pas. Whether you compose or act, think no more of the spectator than if he did not exist. Imagine at the edge of the stage a large wall which separates you from the orchestra; act as if the curtain never rose.
We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final stage of affluent miserya crocus on a garbage heap.
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.
A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.
The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to please, must please to live.
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
Soul of the Age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!
Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.
Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
When the final curtain comes down, it's time to get off the stage.
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could. It is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrinea place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
Name me one character in literature or drama who can't be described as neurotic We wouldn't want to know the people we get to see on the stage. How would you like to have Medea for dinner? Or Macbeth slurping your soup? Or Oedipus with his bloody, blinded eyes dripping all over your tablecloth?
How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? Inevery friend we losea part ofourselves, and the best part.
It is only in science, I find, that we can get outside ourselves. It's realistic, and to a great degree verifiable, and it has this tremendous stage on which it plays. I have the same feelingto a certain degreeabout some religious expressionsbut only to a certain degree. For me, the proper study of mankind is science, which also means that the proper study of mankind is man.
There are compensations for growing older.One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage setwhich you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together. Then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerityand dignity.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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