Stage Quotes

The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. (Charles Darwin)
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. View quote
William Shakespeare
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. View quote
Norman Mailer
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. View quote
Sean O`Casey
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun. View quote
Miley Cyrus
Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage... Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end. View quote
Georg Büchner
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. (Elvis Costello)
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. View quote
Betty Friedan
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. View quote
Elvis Presley
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. View quote
William Howard Taft
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. View quote
Richard Dawkins
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. View quote
William Shakespeare
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience. View quote
Anthony Quinn
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide. View quote
Rebecca Wells
I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women. (Robert B. Parker)
The stage is near and dear to me. View quote
Bela Lugosi
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching. View quote
Gérard Depardieu