Brief as the lightning in the collied night;
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,<...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO 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 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 "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 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 Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS If there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,
Making i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The good thing is these guys are very bright. They're not only talented, they pick things up pretty ...
BOB SLOWIK 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 O hell! to choose love by another's eyes!" "Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN 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 So they can come through quick, grab them and go.
DIANNE SMITH At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged charac...
ERIC WALTERS In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN 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 "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush sp...
CHELSEA HANDLER We do not need to confuse ourselves because our life is bright and interesting in itself
SUNDAY ADELAJA Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He jumped in and was able to help us immediately. He's got good, quick feet and some speed. Bright k...
EDGAR BENNETT I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO We had opportunities. I've asked the girls to do a lot of things they have never done, and they have...
LORI DRESBACH Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until ...
ALLEN KLEIN 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 Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch.
THE BRAVERY William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY London is so up at the moment, and we come to London so often for weekends. It's very quick visits, ...
ALAN CLEAVOR We had to come up with a bright line.
DIANE HARDT 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 Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
H. C. BUNNER Life is like a light it keeps things bright so you can see your direction in life.
TYLER HETHERINGTON Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER The guys getting on the team are making sacrifices to come to William and Mary. They come here to hi...
CLIFF GAUTHIER We will expect to be there quick enough so that food, water, those sorts of issues probably will not...
GENE KITTS Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling st...
GLENDA MILLARD 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 We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM So much has to happen, so many things have to come together,
CRAIG COLTEN Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happe...
TOM BRADY No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT Confusion arises out of two things, either out of intelligence or ignorance.
EPHDAN Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickin...
TIM CUMMINGS You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it is...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Don't be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world's greatest changes, brilliant poetry...
STEVE MARABOLI Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON It's the wrong time of the year for these things to be happening. But they're happening so we have t...
TONI KUKOC I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would ...
KYLE MACLACHLAN One of the really intriguing things to me is that we actually started this effort in working groups ...
HARRY FOSTER Being Optimistic and Having Hope are close to the same thing.
Think about being optimistic your tryi...
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS We let a very talented team jump on us quick. The bright side is, we could've folded, but we scored ...
CHRIS COZORT Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
ISAAC NEWTON I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespe...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespe...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Sometimes Italian fashion, especially in the summer, is bright and gaudy and tarty, so I'd be bu...
POLLY WALKER How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.
JANE AUSTEN He's just so bright -- and he's so scary.
ANN HILL In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
ISAAC NEWTON Some things must happen so that others may come to pass.
LYNDA A. CALDER Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless yo...
STEVEN PINKER I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I ...
BILLY ECKSTINE The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and be...
MADELINE MILLER Kids today are very bright. They know bad things happen, and they need to know that this man who has...
JOAN GREENE 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