David Rabe Quotes

Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one thing, but something else is actually orchestrating their lives.

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• Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

  

  Gary North
  • Law
  • Jesus
  • Biblical

• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Children
  • Bear

• I like to do my own make-up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Like
  • Own

• My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Children
  • American

• There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Opportunity
  • Service
  • Acting

• I've always been very fond of animals.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Always
  • Animals
  • Very

• There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Music
  • Audience
  • Understand

• I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Country
  • Like
  • Feel

• Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Die

• Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Broken

• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Guitar
  • Superstar
  • Skater

• I only can properly enjoy carol services if I am having an illicit affair with someone in the congregation. Why is this? Perhaps because they are essentially pagan, not Christian, celebrations.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Why
  • Christian

• Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.

  

  Edward Young
  • Alone
  • Fall

• People say, Well, he wore that body out. Well, maybe I did. But it was to a good purpose. They should be thankful that I wore it out to the purpose I wore it out and that was writing and recording and touring and doing concerts. Everywhere I could possibly do them that I thought I might enjoy them. I thought people might enjoy me.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Men
  • Passion

• The progress that's made … in any argument or in any discussion is by confrontation. That's a dialectical fact. People say 'oh let's have less heat and more light,' fatuously. There's only one source of light. It happens to be heat.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • People
  • Light
  • Progress

• Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Women
  • Real
  • Power

• I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

  

  Liam Neeson
  • Movie
  • Band
  • Professional

• I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side, not on the "taking drugs in a field and listening to the Grateful Dead" side.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Parents
  • Writers
  • San Francisco

• I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Thinking
  • Economy
  • Abuse

• Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one thing, but something else is actually orchestrating their lives.

  

  David Rabe