The man who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye
THOMAS CARLYLE A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
EUGENE FIELD I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN I came here in a pair of flip-flops and shorts, and my son's track coach lent me a pair of boots and...
DAVID JACKSON When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in...
CHARLES ANTHON I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
THOMAS DE QUINCEY It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ...
C. JOYBELL C. I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most ...
JOHN DRYDEN O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER We're having a lot of success producing Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well everywhere, because Shake...
CHARLES FEE When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft both gave commencement speeches here.
MIKE ROGERS This is a shoeless town. I don't think I saw one pair of shoes all day. It's all flip flops down her...
BEN GIBBARD We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA This is what I think is modern. It's like wearing a couture jacket with a pair of jeans.
KARL LAGERFELD Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love, that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, n...
CHARLTON HESTON Pour on, I will endure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
GEORGE HERBERT A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of t...
JOHN TYLER BONNER In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We ca...
KATHRYN LASKY I'm a big fan of spectacles, and I live to go to large sporting events. This ranks right up there wi...
WARREN MOON She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time
HENRIK IBSEN The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSEN Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, ...
ROBERT CONQUEST Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
THOMAS W. HIGGINSON Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker
STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Bec...
NEIL MACGREGOR To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look...
C.S. LEWIS My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not like Homer would I...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER