"We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO 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 Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a ...
RICHARD DAWKINS A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our pres...
CONFUCIUS 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 He was a forceful advocate for causes he believed in, ... Sometimes he regarded himself as the consc...
RICHARD LEVIN It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and wh...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it,
MAHMUD AHMADINEJAD He was in cloud cuckoo land for the remainder of the game - which included his hat-trick try.
RICHARD AGAR 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 But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN 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 I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE The thing that he brings, the experience, the proven track record of defensive football, what he's a...
DAVID SAUNDERS never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in...
JOHN GREEN Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not n...
VERONICA ROTH Although he has been regarded as a marginal and somewhat obscure 'border' figure, Bean was anything ...
JACK JACKSON When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi...
GRAHAM GREENE 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 O blithe New-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice;
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH It's not a nice thing. I heard he was pretty crook, I didn't actually see him but I heard he was pre...
COLIN COOPER Not only was Burroughs one of the three progenitors of the Beat movement ... but he may also be rega...
ISAAC GEWIRTZ Every night I was in the hospital, my family read it to me. My Aunt June started crying when she hea...
JUSTIN WERNKE 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 Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think ...
GEORGE III Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think ...
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
EDMUND HILLARY I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but al...
JOHN HEYWOOD I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all...
BILL HIRST Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.
RUSSELL M. NELSON A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be ...
A. R. RAHMAN The Senate and the nation are united in mourning the loss of Chief Justice William Rehnquist , or as...
BILL FRIST I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE At land indeed
Thou dost o'ercount me of my father's house:
But since the cuckoo builds not fo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so truly crossed, but it is in the nature...
JOHN GREEN Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your th...
KAREN JOY FOWLER THE THING WAS, William had a kind of genius for not noticing what he didn’t want to notice.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG He never played the position before, but he's leaps and bounds better than he was in June, from call...
JIM GOBER Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but ...
ATO ESSANDOH If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic division...
RUDOLF CARNAP The behavior of the pigeon
is beyond reproach,
but the mountain cuckoo?
YOSA BUSON If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
G. K. CHESTERTON He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.
PAUL THEROUX From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART As he has just had the operation, Yao Ming will not be able to immediately return to the national te...
ZHANG MINGJI War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?
HENRY IRVING Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY The telephone call that forever changed the lives of the Dodd family of Chicago came at noon on Thur...
ERIK LARSON We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; no...
ROBERT WILENSKY When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is...
MAX ERNST As you know, all the rumors were that he was on his way. We had not officially heard that. But we go...
A.J. SMITH List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight
Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I...
PETER MULLAN One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who studies MA in English Literature but fears the name Shakespeare is one who studies shadow but...
VIKRANT PARSAI 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 War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.
DAVID HEWSON We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakes...
ROBERT WILENSKY Thompson was regarded as one of the best receivers in the AIFL. He would have been in contention for...
BRENT WILLIAMS Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Am...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crow...
ALISTAIR HORNE I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop...
ERNIE ACCORSI [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL I went to have dinner at their house before I even heard about the movie. We were in their living ro...
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