Quotes about stage

Jessica Raine -

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

William Shakespeare - Henry V

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention,A kingdom for a stage, princes to actAnd monarchs to behold the swelling scene!Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fireCrouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,The flat unraised spirits that have daredOn this unworthy scaffold to bring forthSo great an object: can this cockpit holdThe vasty fields of France? or may w

Avijeet Das -

We were on stage. We were supposed to speak our dialogues. But at times, a smile says more than words ever can!

Patricia Highsmith -

One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become any worse, finally, for the one who is really depressed.

Jake Vander-Ark - The Brandywine Prophet

William looked up... through his tears... past the catwalk and lights... past the sky... through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in, alone, and asked, 'Why?

Jan Karon - Home to Holly Springs

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.

Dean F. Wilson - Worldwaker

He could feel the Great Iron War coming to an end now, but he no longer had his finger on the button. The curtains of the world were about to close, and the play of life would soon be over. There would be no applause.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

I spend a tremendous amount of time carefully choosing the roles I wish to play so that I can run from the role I was born to play. And if I keep on doing that, I will eventually set foot in my grave never having set foot on the stage.

J.R. Rim -

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

Stephen Sondheim -

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.

Lady Gaga -

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

Gérard de Nerval - Selected Writings

I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.

Anthony Liccione -

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

Charmaine J. Forde -

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. William Shakespeare

Eva Hoffman - Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

Debasish Mridha -

Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper.

Todd Stocker -

The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world.

Kate McGahan - JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.

Lee Blessing -

Oh, come on! Nobody's favorite color is BROWN!

David Levithan - Every Me

My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

Konstantin Stanislavski -

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.

William Shakespeare - As You Like It

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

David Byrne - How Music Works

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.

William Shakespeare - As You Like It

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. At first, the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful balladMade to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,Full of strange oaths and bearded like the par

William Shakespeare - As You Like It

All the world's a stage.

Seán O'Casey -

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Time is a hard-hearted rebel, we cannot fight him or can we beg him to slow down, wait for us or stop, all we have to do is to obey his strict rules, follow him and run, he doesn't get tired, and we musn't get tired too.

Tori Spelling -

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

Robert Gottlieb -

Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.

Lesley Livingston - Wondrous Strange

Kelley. Your name is Kelley, isn't it?" He didn't wait for her confirmation. "Yes. Well. Tell me...that bit just now...was that from Dante's Inferno?"Uh...no," Kelley stammered. Her face felt hot.Really?"I'm in for it.Are you sure?" he continued. "Because it most certainly wasn't from this play. And it bloody well sounded like hell.

Kamil Ali - Profound Vers-A-Tales

CURTAIN CALLThe world is our stage and the final act can highlight or ruin a beautiful play

John Flanagan - Erak's Ransom

You'll like it less when you hear what they've been building. It's a big raised platform at the end of the square about two metres above the ground, with steps running up to it.''Like a stage?' Erak suggested. 'Maybe they're going to put on a play.''Or an execution,' Horace said.

Haresh Sharma - Teach

I keep seeing this ad on TV. It talks about teachers. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for changing my life. They all look happy. Have they always been this happy? Did they have a perfect childhood? A perfect school life? I was happy once. But I was young. The older you get, the more you remember. The younger you are, the more you forget.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

When the right stage gets missing, true talent that can grow to inspire, nurture and change lives least gets the right stage to manifest; real deft and dexterity remains latent and people only die with their dreams, abilities and capabilities.

Noel Coward Sir -

Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!

Jennifer Donnelly - Revolution

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

Rebecca Stead - Goodbye Stranger

This is the world of pretend. We are artists and we are servants of the stage, and I take both jobs very seriously. As artists, we work as a collective—all for one and one for all. As servants, we work for thos who venture out alone, otherwise known as performers.

Deyth Banger -

Okay this guy looks like nerves, this guy sounds like angry, so the first will be the victim the angry guy more is suitable for a killer, isn't he?Angry stage, a stage in which you can do everything and when you become victim you start to feel sorry.

Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

Anna Godbersen - Envy

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.

Jennifer Donnelly - Revolution

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

Jay Woodman -

You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path.

J.R. Rim -

Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance.

Elaine Stritch -

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

Oliver -

I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.

Amanda Craig - In a Dark Wood

I knew exactly when the fever had struck. I had been reading Hamlet in an English class at school. Everyone else stumbled, puzzling over the strange words. Then it had been my turn, and the language had suddenly woken in me, so that my heart and lungs and tongue and throat were on fire. Later, I understood that this was why people spoke of Shakespeare as a god. At the time, I felt like weeping. Somebody had released me from dumbness, from utter isolation. I knew that I could live inside these wo

Deyth Banger -

Jokes are another example of stupidity... we are so wise and so clever and we do stupid stuff, how wise is that?Jokes on stage of being serious... when you aren't serious what you get is more likely somebody being in state of seriousness.

Deyth Banger -

I believe in one, that all people are just one a stage and everyone has his role in this stage. The life is seasons, with episodes every die and event which happen. Happen in a new chapter. You probably ask about the speech??? Easy, answer the speech is programmed up to the infinity so everything is allowed, it's just a brain programmed with the needed stuff the other is just taken from books, films and life!

Richard L. Ratliff -

Seems hats have been on topOf all the stages comings and goingsHelping us remember heroes and idols

Sangita Pareek -

A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.

Thomas Ligotti - Teatro Grottesco

And any room that I enter may become a sideshow tent where I must take my place upon a rickety old bench on the verge of collapse. Even now the Showman stands before my eyes. His stiff red hair moves a little toward one shoulder, as if he is going to turn his gaze upon me, and moves back again; then his head moves a little toward the other shoulder in this never-ending game of horrible peek-a-boo. I can only sit and wait, knowing that one day he will turn full around, step down from his stage, a

P.S. Baber - Cassie Draws the Universe

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe.

Chirag Tulsiani -

Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience or are you someone who pens down his own story?

Edward Albee -

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

Elizabeth George - A Woman After God's Own Heart

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and Damned

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

Shelly Branch - What Would Jackie Do?: An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living

Ever theatrical, Jackie also viewed the home as a grand set: a malleable, working stage on which to play out the daily sketches of life...

Kate McGahan - JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

We tried to make a heaven of earth,But the earth is just a stage, a school,Where we wear our masks and play our rolesAnd teach each other how to love.