August Wilson Quotes

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

August Wilson

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• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Laugh

• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Business
  • Sweet

• I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Looking

• My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

  

  Rainey Qualley
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • High
  • Community

• The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Song
  • Kiss
  • Breathe

• I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Boy
  • Rose
  • Back

• I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Guy
  • Hand
  • Write

• I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Profound

• I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Different
  • Important
  • School

• God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • God
  • Sea
  • Sky

• A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country

• We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Together

• The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • Real

• We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Space

• The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Music
  • Stars
  • Glory

• If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?

  

  Fat Joe
  • You
  • Know
  • Gay

• All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • War
  • Chance
  • Disaster

• I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

  

  August Wilson