Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is never enough. Madness is enough. It is complete, sufficient unto itself. You can only stand ...
JERRY PINTO All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and ...
OVID She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON «…you’re too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You’ve had bad intern...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Archbishop Mannix was possessed of the clearest intellect I have ever encountered. He prayed regular...
BARTHOLOMEW AUGUSTINE SANTAMARIA We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting u...
ERICA SEHYUN SONG I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love, that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -W...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter y...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Tu...
REBECCA SOLNIT My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Many people saw [the Apollo landing] as adding to the tradition of Western expansion and the new fro...
ALLAN NEEDELL Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” th...
LEWIS CARROLL It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
EDWARD E. BARNARD The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The Way It Is
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But i...
WILLIAM STAFFORD What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON There is a madness that is joy, and there is a madness that is just madness.
MARTY RUBIN You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
EPICTETUS You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will
EPICTETUS Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
JOSEPH HALL Patience is the silken cord on which are strung the pearls of virtue.
UNKNOWN No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
HAROLD BLOOM I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...
WILLIAM STYRON It's unusual that four have left in the last year and a half. In my 21 years here, I can't remember ...
LEE FETTER at a point you've asked too much of human beings and it's not intelligent to keep going.
TREVOR FETTER Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus hims...
MARCUS AURELIUS Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus hims...
EPICTETUS Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that w...
JAMES MCAVOY The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.
WILLIAM STRONG The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
WILLIAM STRONG This is one of the biggest cases of repeat copyright infringement. Frankly, it's amazing that this i...
WILLIAM STRONG All habits are bad habits. (...) Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settlin...
G.K. CHESTERTON Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the sta...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, RALPH WALDO EMERSON William Eggleston in the Real World
MICHAEL ALMEREYDA Madness breeds madness.
DAN BROWN I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it ...
ALEXI ZENTNER Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable t...
RAINER MARIA RILKE There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first flutter...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielde...
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY I first met William McInnes in 1986.
ANDREW GILBERT In his madness he became a terrifying actor!
LUIGI PIRANDELLO There nearly always is a method in madness.
G.K. CHESTERTON