If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets hav...
ROBERT MORSE An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Like...
KELLY STEED A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO William: It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again.
HUGH GRANT It's an improbable win if you look at where we were Wednesday.
JIM WOOLDRIDGE I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare s...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Shakespeare said “all the world’s a stage” if it is then I suggest you to perform better than ...
VIKRANT PARSAI He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you...
BILL HICKS Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
OSCAR WILDE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN I'm glad he had the game he did. If not, it would probably have been a different game as hard as (Wi...
JEFF CAPEL Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.
MIRIAM ALLEN DE FORD Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
OSCAR WILDE 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 As soon as we were on stage, it felt like we'd played our last concert two weeks before,
COLIN BLUNSTONE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP It strikes us both as brave and foolish to look for an improbable rate hike at this particular meeti...
CARL WEINBERG William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
ROD SERLING I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
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 People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could hav...
SYLVESTER STALLONE 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 That's what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly att...
JO LEIGH Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience mo...
ADA LEVERSON I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I...
TIM ROTH All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
GERALD CLARKE If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at clim...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.
ROBIN TROWER Now it's a serious question. Back then it was a lark — a way of getting people to realize there we...
PAUL BARWICK The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If they're this crazy now. Imagine how they'll be on stage.
KATIE SIMONS If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fic...
ANTHONY BURGESS I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is j...
PHILIP K. DICK Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; no...
ROBERT WILENSKY Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted:
JOHN SIMON I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ...
JAY PARINI I play every single morning. Alice Cooper has never played golf. I play golf. If you put golf clubs ...
ALICE COOPER I like science fiction and I read it a lot - if I were a collector, I would bid for his works,
DAVID ANDERSON We knew we were going to do a Shakespeare this year.
JEFF CASAZZA This market was behaving as if it were an oligarchy. Now our prices are going up and down. That was ...
FRANK YOUNG Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assaul...
IRWIN SHAW Beyond that, as this case could finish up before the judiciary panel, I can make no comment at this ...
GRAHAM ANNESLEY Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe L...
BOB GUNTON Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were ava...
FRANCIS HERBERT HEDGE Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were avai...
H. F. HEDGE Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were ava...
H. F. HEDGE Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were avai...
FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE If Shakespeare were working right now, he wouldn't be working with a quill pen. He would be working ...
KEN KESEY As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.
ALEX BERENSON How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if...
BORIS PASTERNAK I just wasn't interested in going to New York, my interest wasn't TV or film. It was always the stag...
CINDY GENZANO I felt we could do it. I didn't know if we would. This was one of our better-played games.
GREGG HOSTETLER I literally could not feel more cozy right now if I were actually inside a marshmallow
ALICE CLAYTON I think we had a bunch of jitters. It's a huge stage, and it is a state championship. None of us hav...
KATHERYN LYONS I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?
ORLANDO: Yes, just.
JAQUES: I do not lik...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that ...
PRINCE WILLIAM If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.
RITA ORA If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
ENRICO FERMI Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a ph...
RAINBOW ROWELL William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
GERTRUDE STEIN I could end this with a moral,
as if this were a fable about animals,
though no fables are...
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Che...
TOM HARDY In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exis...
DIANA WYNNE JONES We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces,...
FRANCIS PARKMAN My dad used to do it when we were little, and I tried it when we played around in the back yard. Eve...
BEN ZOBRIST We've gone through this shock period immediately after the bombing when we all reacted simultaneousl...
NAZIR AHMED As far as I'm concerned, William has been an excellent leader. He's a staying leader.
ANN WIDDECOMBE Something like laughter. That a flower could be this small, this fleeting, that a snowflake could be...
PETER HELLER I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three pla...
ROB LOWE