| "There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then 'skinned.'' I'm not sure what the fourth stage is." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)" »Jim Lehrer |
| "It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham |
| "Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car." »Edward De Bono |
| "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." »Harriet |
| "If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand." »J. F. Boyse |
| "If all the world's a stage, then where is the audience sitting" »Unknown |
| "All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." »Sean O'Casey |
| "The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism." »Norman Brenner |
| "When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools." »William Shakespeare |
| "If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." »Paul Beatty |
| "The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls." »Rob Brown |
| "If life indeed is a stage, then how can we act our parts if we can't read our script" »Vu Quyen |
| "Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air." »Julie Arabi |
| "On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone." »Janis Joplin |
| "Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else." »Tom Stoppard |
| "Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage." »H Hahn Blavatsky |
| "The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying." »Edward Hoagland |
| "George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door." »Blow |
| "Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator." »Johann von Goethe |
| "My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage." »Peggy Noonan |
| "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." »William Shakespeare |
| "I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience." »Shelley Winters |
| "In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation." »Jacques Martin Barzun |
| "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing." »William Shakespeare |
| "If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet you would get booed right off the stage. They're just not ready." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object." »This Is Spinal Tap |
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