Elizabethan Quotes

• Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Present

• Looking back fondly, I think the first gig we did with the electronic stuff was really exciting because it was in this tiny club, like an Elizabethan building with beams.

  

  Grace Chatto
  • Building
  • Back
  • Electronic

• Lord, what fools these mortals be!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Fool

• The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Building

• But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Imagine
  • Able
  • Might

• Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

  

  George Fetherling
  • Sometimes
  • Misfortune
  • Elizabethan