I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON O Death, rock me asleep, Bring me to quiet rest, Let pass my weary guiltless ghost Out of my careful...
ANNE BOLEYN Your bounty is beyond my speaking;
But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.
NICHOLAS ROWE 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 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes,
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies.
JOHN KEATS "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
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 He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
KAHLIL GIBRAN 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 teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER 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 My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, the...
EDMOND ROSTAND I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
RANDY HOUSER Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then ...
ROBERT EMMET I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Fate has carried me
'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--
Not shrink and let the shaf...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's ...
BILL CLEGG Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN 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 O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world,...
SANTOSH KALWAR I bid your voice be dumb until the day you find a word worth speaking.
URSULA K. LE GUIN My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
MAGGIE SMITH England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made Englan...
VICTOR HUGO I decided to let my play do the speaking. I said a little afterward.
JAMAR BUTLER O let not women's weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man's cheeks!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It'...
GAIL CARRIGER I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am...
CAROLINA HERRERA Fate has carried me
'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--
Not shrink and let the s...
GEORGE ELIOT That's not a dumb idea. We might be able to do that way before we can cure breast cancer.
CONNIE EAVES But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first n...
DON DELILLO 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 Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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UFUOMA APOKI Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
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 In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
BIBLE If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
cunning.
BIBLE Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it plea...
BIBLE Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue,...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue,...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
ALLEN GINSBERG Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let u...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!
JOHN WESLEY The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This opportunity shall not come again! I say to you, O my body, listen to my advice! You slander, an...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I'm the most Failure Model of My parents activities
SATHESH KUMAR M My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, an...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK Good riddance to bad rubbish.
RODMAN PHILBRICK I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that ...
PRINCE WILLIAM Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many (Proverbs 4:10).
BIBLE A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces ar...
TIM CROUCH I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let ...
PAUL MCCARTNEY I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so ...
LYNDA BARRY Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to
lawyers.]
UNKNOWN Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and l...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
WILLIAM SHATNER One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.'
PAUL DANO I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Dumb, dumb, ... It was a dumb interception and then B.J. and I had a little miscommunication.
JEFF ROWE I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high ...
COMPTON GAGE Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TEDDY DAY POEM:
A bear hug for you,
and I would make you forget your sorrows!
I’ll ...
VIKRMN Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, hi...
SALLY MANN There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, toni...
MADELINE MILLER O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a f...
HOPE MIRRLEES My parents are big Shakespeare fans.
ELLIE KENDRICK 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 O then if in my lagging lines you miss / The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation.
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books ma...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out...
BIBLE The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, ...
OSCAR WILDE As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, a...
EUGENIE CLARK I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board
ILONA ANDREWS Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
IAN DOESCHER I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be...
KAREN ALLEN