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 Bush put both arms round Hornblower’s shoulders and walked with dragging feet. It did not matter t...
C.S. FORESTER 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 The whiskey’s power released his repressed memories so fast that his words raced to keep up with t...
PASCAL MARCO His shoulder might be hurting like a son of a bitch and he was more than slightly sloshed but he rec...
VICKIE MCKEEHAN Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS "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 Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP 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 Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the mi...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY 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 I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS 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 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 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, re...
WILLIAM STAFFORD 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 my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his cl...
A. S. BYATT My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES My parents are big Shakespeare fans.
ELLIE KENDRICK I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the thing...
DAGMARA DOMINCZYK My name is not 'William Shatner.'
CHRIS PINE 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 My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded...
GENE RODDENBERRY Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM To look with our physical eyes is mediocrity,But to see with our minds eye is genius.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a
piece of orange-peel.
CHARLES DICKENS My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
WILLIAM SHATNER Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys ar...
ADAM MCKAY We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know.
HAMLET My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
MAGGIE SMITH Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the thin...
EARL NIGHTINGALE In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
AYA CASH What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
KATE ATKINSON Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
PAUL OAKENFOLD It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE If I close my eyes, I do not see anything but, if I imagine, I see something. To look beyond what yo...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Billy Jack did an outstanding job. He did what he was supposed to do. Anything [Horatio] came up wit...
ROBERT WEBB An eye for an eye my friend.
TSUGUMI OHBA I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywo...
CARL WEATHERS What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
HORACE Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite
jest, of most excellent fancy. He ha...
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 The eye doctor that I was going to since I was 7, for eight years never checked the pressure in my e...
MELISSA BAKER When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is...
ANSEL ADAMS William Eggleston in the Real World
MICHAEL ALMEREYDA They can't censor the gleam in my eye.
CHARLES LAUGHTON William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the thin...
EARL NIGHTINGALE When I was offered the part in Shakespeare
In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights r...
JOSEPH FIENNES We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest ...
M.R. MATHIAS I first met William McInnes in 1986.
ANDREW GILBERT Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE