#plays

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. ↗

— Laura Malone Elliott

#novels #plays #poetry #reading #music

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art #criticism #desire #films #gravity

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#plays #stoppard #dreams

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#belong #characters #even #person #plays

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#displays #important #joke #perception #switch

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one. ↗

— Connie Britton

#costumes #cousin #family #fought #i

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#plays #power #revolution #role #to love

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#comedy #difficult #fool #most #must

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers. ↗

— Steve Vai

#arch #artist #called #favored #fingers