Top 1200 Reading Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.

Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down with disgust at "...the grace of the lord Jesus be with all. Amen." I'm sure there are lots of religious people who've read the Bible from start to finish and kept their faith, but in my self-selected sample, all the people I know who have done that are atheists.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.

To be invited to the Park - the greatest free Shakespeare festival in the world - is a great honor, and I don't take it lightly.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.

That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

I haven't been reading anything on tour so far, I haven't had a minute. Any moment that I've had recently on the tour has been completely sleeping. But before I left home I was reading Dylan Thomas' book of collected works of poetry. I read a lot of poetry.

I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.

I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.

There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting down one day and writing one. You have to learn how to captivate a reader. Right? And I don't mean you have to go to school for it. But if you're - if you pay attention, you can learn it by reading books. And so I feel like I learned a lot by reading books.

I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible.

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.

...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over 100 years ago, parents were upset because their kids were reading dime-store novels. Parents would say, "I don't want you inside reading anymore. Get outside and play." I guarantee you, in 50 years or so, parents are going to say, "You're not going outside to play until you finish that video game."

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.