Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let music sound while he doth make his choice;
Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end,
Fading...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS 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 I will play the swan,
And die in music.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP 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 O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the process he meets a swan who accepts him.
CATHY STURGILL Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Mus...
LAUREN OLIVER 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 I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was go...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN I like people-watching and fading into crowds.
KRISTEN JOHNSTON The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK Yeah,” I said. “What is that? A bird? "It’s the swan,” he said. “Wow. A school with a swan...
JOHN GREEN 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 I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invi...
ELLIE GOULDING Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
STING She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou...
BONO Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.
TIMMOTHY RADMAN 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 I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i...
ANNE STEVENSON Some companies do in fact retain their gains while others fail and fade like a fading rocket.
RICHARD PETERSON 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 A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan.
[Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroqu...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
LEO ORNSTEIN Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he...
MIKE VEECK Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.
MARIA SHARAPOVA Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'
DAVID HALLBERG I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE I thought this was a great way to end the season with a bang. This music just makes you feel good al...
ERIC GREENE Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker
STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION music makes people cry, music makes people smile but most of all music makes you feel alive.
RODOLFO OLVERA CASADOS He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hier...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
JIMI HENDRIX The dying swan, when years her temples pierce,
In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,
...
PHINEAS FLETCHER In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid ...
THEODOR ADORNO Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.
JUDY GREER Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
DYAN CANNON He emotes such passion and love for the music, and he looks like he doesn't work that hard at it. Be...
DANIEL LARSON Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. (About Shakespeare)
JOHN AUBREY I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading d...
ALICE HOFFMAN There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an esc...
TATIANA MASLANY I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. ...
JILL SCOTT Just know that I always have, and always will really love you, Lisa. Baby or no baby. Past or no pas...
A. VIOLET END Look, that was some weird shit, you dying and then returning from the dead. I know it was no acciden...
A. VIOLET END 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 In the story of the Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized he...
BENJAMIN HOFF William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY The swan on still St. Mary's lake
Float double, swan and shadow!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music a...
BABYFACE I was like a swan - sort of gliding on the top, but my legs were paddling underneath.
LEE WESTWOOD It's like trying to teach Shakespeare to a monkey.
HUGH PIERCE William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan,...
KENNETH TYNAN Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, n...
CHARLTON HESTON I definitely saw (Harper) turn up the sideline. When I saw him, that's when I let it go a couple of ...
IKE WHITAKER In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
CAITLIN MORAN In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling...
LUKAS FOSS Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
ICE CUBE We are but a moment's sunlight Fading in the grass
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