Stage Quotes - Page 13

• Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Perfect, Humans

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.

  Conor Maynard

  Black, Watches, Wrists

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

  Estelle

  Actors, Staff, Stage Managers

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• Being on the stage, you've got to be ready for anything.

  Laura Michelle Kelly

  Ready

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• Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on.

  Katherine Webb

  Makeup, Different, Looks

  "Katherine Webb on Fitness, Fame, and What's Next". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Being on stage is so much fun and enjoyable. Because it’s a lot of fun, we work really hard on music programs and our eyes automatically open up. Because this is where I’m most confident and where I’m at my best, I found a way to enjoy all of it. And I’m still searching for more ways.

  Kim Tae-yeon

  Fun, Eye, Snsd

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• Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

  John Dryden

  Love, Men, Heaven

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.138

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• It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.

  Ellen Goodman

  Life, Life Is

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

  Henry Rollins

  Gay, Games, Icons

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

  Thornton Wilder

  Real, Drama, Eye

  1961 In the New York Times, 6 Nov.

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• America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.

  Martha Graham

  Philosophy, Moving, Land

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• Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

  Harold Bloom

  Language, Multicultural, Feels

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• Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation stage, usually referred to as courtship, is remarkably prolonged by animal standards.

  Desmond Morris

  Animal, Order, Three

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

  John Cage

  Music, Fighting, Hands

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• One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Hands, Two, Public Opinion

  Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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• The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Eye, Men, Race

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

  Larry David

  Wells, Knows

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". www.laughfactory.com. June 28, 2016.

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• The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

  James Gleick

  Feelings, Finding Yourself, Suffering

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• A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.

  Karl Shapiro

  Men, Play, House

  Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

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• You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

  Gene Hackman

  Careers, Choices, Awful

  "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

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• I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

  Kenny Rogers

  Awards, Remember, Walking

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• When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Thinking, Worry, Mouths

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• The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide.

  Henri Poincare

  Children, Moving, History

  "'La logique et l'intuition dans la science mathématique et dans l'enseignement' ('Logic and intuition in the science of mathematics and in teaching')". Book by Henri Poincare, 1899.

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• American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Drama, Humorous

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