The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled...
G. K. CHESTERTON The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled th...
G. K. CHESTERTON He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON 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 My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE 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 This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary
necessities, are the greatest cozenage men c...
OLIVER CROMWELL William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS 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 live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
OSCAR WILDE 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 you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you coll...
DAVID FURNISH I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire...
BLAISE PASCAL One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather ...
BRIAN ENO Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing th...
MARY ROACH Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE One of our efforts in doing a lot of Shakespeare is, the more we do it, the more proficient our stud...
JACK CIRILLO Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yes. Well, as I said, love can haunt us, and make us do strange things.
ALENA GRAEDON The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These are things that need to be dealt with, because in the final analysis, if we surrender our prec...
MAHDI BRAY Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fash...
ROBERT SCHUMANN We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only ...
OSCAR WILDE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things trul...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH 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 “Art is everything you see. Boardgames are art, songs are art, books are art, art is a precious th...
J C A ROWE Strange things can happen. I refuse to believe anybody is automatically counted out of the district ...
DOUG MAGAW Our necessities never equal our wants.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Our necessities never equal our wants
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.
THICH NHAT HANH O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
CHARLES SPURGEON While the most beautiful things in life can be attributed to G-d, the most vile things in life can b...
TROY J. GAINEY Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of hig...
OSCAR WILDE Any view of things that is not strange, is false.
NEIL GAIMAN There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do ...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits,...
CARY FUKUNAGA It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
KATE MICUCCI Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will no...
BEN JONSON Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection.
OSCAR WILDE One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if yo...
ELMER BERNSTEIN One great concern that plagues very ambitious people is this: in the end, they’ll get all the prec...
UFUOMA APOKI William Hartnell was one of the finest character actors of our time, and as a fan, I want to make su...
DAVID BRADLEY Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
ARNA BONTEMPS 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 Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who wou...
BRAM STOKER The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent tha...
JOHN BERGER And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the ...
BIBLE Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch.
THE BRAVERY The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think the believe ...
LEONARD BASKIN It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and wh...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like...
JAMILA WOODS I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
JOSH BILLINGS Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.
DAVID RICHO Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base ...
ISAAC BARROW We can always make choices but if we are doing the right things the path will be clear for God to be...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT The role of art is to make a world which can be tolerated.
WILLIAM SAROYAN The most precious things that we have in our every day lives, are the ones that are least notice by ...
ANONYMOUS The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
OSCAR WILDE The paradise of prayers is like a palace full of precious things.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We try to follow the show, but nobody gets voted out. And of course, we make sure nobody is without ...
DOUG KRAMER When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.
MITCH ALBOM It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: fr...
MARK TWAIN It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: ...
MARK TWAIN The paradise of praying is like a palace of full of precious things.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul...
DEBBIE FORD The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what...
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happines...
CHARLIE EBERSOL Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Al...
SUSAN SONTAG Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
RICHIE NORTON