#shake

Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#milkshakes #oxygen #veins #humor

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell. ↗

— Reduced Shakespeare Company

#paraphrased #romeo-and-juliet #shakespeare #humor

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #humor

And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14 ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare-s-wisdom #love

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #love

Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones. ↗

— Catharine Arnold

#shakespeare #skittles #skulls #death

JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #jaques #names #orlando #rosalind

We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail. ↗

— Bill Willingham

#love

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#arthur #could #idea #imagine #life

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#get #lie #move #page #shakespeare