Stage Quotes - page 91

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, "What'd I do? What'd I do?" And he said, "Whatever it is, go back and do it again." (Elvis Presley)
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. View quote
Elvis Presley
If you can strum the guitar a little, hit the drums - it's always fun and a good way to release tensions...You can have a hard day at work, pick up your instrument and just feel better. You also can appreciate why a performer is up on stage and see how they have spent their life learning their craft. View quote
Pete Escovedo
I have been told by some anciently conversant with the Stage, that it was not Originally his, but brought by a private Author to be Acted and he only gave some Master-touches to one or two of the Principal Parts or Characters; this I am apt to believe, because 'tis the most incorrect and indigested piece in all his Works, It seems rather a heap of Rubbish then a Structure. View quote
Edward Ravenscroft
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Humanity ... is never stationary. Its progressive march leads it to equality. Its regressive march goes back through every stage of privilege to human slavery, the final word of the right to property. View quote
Louis Auguste Blanqui
Human beings undergo psychological development. At each level or stage of development, they will see the world in a different way. View quote
Ken Wilber
I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer. View quote
Peter Wentz
When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me. View quote
Denis Leary
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things. View quote
James Taylor
There would be a dreadful outcry if anyone suggested obliterating, say, the Tower of London, and quite rightly so; yet a unique and wonderful species of animal which has taken hundreds of thousands of years to develop to the stage we see today, can be snuffed out like a candle without more than a handful of people raising a finger or a voice in protest. (Gerald Durrell)
Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia. Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers. View quote
Walter Cronkite
The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright. View quote
Alain Badiou
As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage. View quote
Henry Paulson
I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly. View quote
Karl Rove
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. View quote
Lewis Thomas
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad. View quote
Lewis Thomas
The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. View quote
Lewis Thomas
But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908. View quote
Jeff Bezos
I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular. View quote
Mick Taylor
I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell. (Brian Wilson)
From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience. View quote
Evander Holyfield
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. View quote
Jeffrey Archer
I just liked the feeling of being on stage. View quote
Harry Connick
When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am. View quote
Harry Connick