A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE 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 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 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS 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 William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN 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 To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
SUN TZU Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angel...
WALTER DE LA MARE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common me...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a com...
ILONA ANDREWS I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA If you listen to your inner voice, you won't follow the herd (heard) (double meanings intended)
APURVA GAGLANI If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
MICKEY SPILLANE 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 was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the mi...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to s...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA 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 The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for...
RICHARD WAGNER Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER 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 Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER 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 I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER United a herd is an army; divided a herd is fair game.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Herd! Your first duty is to get rid of your shepherd!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON Sheep all together, cars all together, people all together, crows all together, ants all together! E...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the origina...
IAN DOESCHER "With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING 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 A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!'
'The red plague rid you!'
'Toads, beetle...
GARY D. SCHMIDT Always drink upstream from the herd
COWBOY PROVERB 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 Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not reg...
BERTRAND RUSSELL One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artis...
COMMON Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token,...
COMMON I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're ...
COMMON It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest expe...
COMMON People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with t...
COMMON I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists ...
COMMON Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.
COMMON Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,...
COMMON After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to mar...
COMMON Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.
COMMON Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there....
COMMON I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better...
COMMON I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately...
COMMON The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.
COMMON I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
COMMON Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the ear...
COMMON The more you spend time in a herd, the more you will move away from yourself! So you must move away ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A single donkey is a lonely donkey. They are herd animals and want to be with a herd.
CINDY JOHNSON Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with crea...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN