A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP 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 He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I a...
MARTHA BECK By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he...
MIKE VEECK William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickin...
TIM CUMMINGS There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, th...
IAN HART 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 "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... 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 When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marri...
SNOOP DOGG 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 When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats...
HOWARD NEMEROV There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work...
IAN HART Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a ...
RICHARD DAWKINS Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Anna Scott: Can I stay for a while? William: You can stay forever.
NOTTING HILL I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you sta...
MARIE BRENNAN I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Anna Scott: Can I stay for a while?
William: You can stay forever.
NOTTING HILL After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mat...
EL DEBARGE We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakes...
ROBERT WILENSKY Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few word...
SANDRA E. LAMB When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer...
MARIO TESTINO We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; no...
ROBERT WILENSKY I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me
WALTER RALEIGH SR. He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William ha...
PRINCESS DIANA I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
PAUL OAKENFOLD I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON A infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters will eventually produce the works ...
COLLIN LYSFORD Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES 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 Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH If all it takes is an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, how come AOL haven't written any ...
ANDY DINGLEY William Shatner is living proof that if you are talented and nice, you can work in this industry for...
LISA LAMPANELLI In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev...
J.D. SALINGER William Eggleston in the Real World
MICHAEL ALMEREYDA If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew w...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I first met William McInnes in 1986.
ANDREW GILBERT Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Tu...
REBECCA SOLNIT In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We ca...
KATHRYN LASKY I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my ...
DENZEL WASHINGTON A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY "The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the award...
KIRK DOUGLAS The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards...
KIRK DOUGLAS I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
JASON BATEMAN I locked myself in a room for a month,
BRET ELLIS I locked myself in a room for a month,
BRET EASTON ELLIS I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life,...
DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE Nicholas: I know you, brother. You've been threatened with matrimonial pursuits before. Why are you ...
DONNA MACMEANS I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
DAVID GEFFEN In the case of the FBI, I revealed that William Sessions, the FBI director, had been engaging in abu...
RONALD KESSLER Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song...
CHRISTINE MCVIE If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
ARTHUR BLOCH