Stage Quotes - page 2

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a Theatrical Show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the Glory of it. (John Adams)
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. View quote
Tennessee Williams
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. View quote
William Ellery Channing
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. View quote
Janis Joplin
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. View quote
Richard Owen
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
Good God how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. View quote
Alexander Pope
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage. View quote
Alexander Pope
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. View quote
Fernand Braudel
We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy. (Goldie Hawn)
I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true. View quote
Luise Rainer
I was very interested in theatre-mostly in stage design but I did a little bit of acting. View quote
Jim Henson
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors. View quote
Arundhati Roy
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite chinese restaurant -- you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. View quote
David Lee Roth
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of. (William Butler Yeats)
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. View quote
Carl Sagan
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet. View quote
Rosa Parks
There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world. View quote
Miley Cyrus
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. View quote
Ingrid Bergman