Famous quotes by Dramatists

"Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable, except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful, would take the eye of a God"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Man is what he believes"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"No matter how far a person can go, the horizon is still way beyond you"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"No man may make another free"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"It is one of the blessings of this world, that few people see visions and dream dreams"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"It costs you something to do good!"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks, then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"I regret all of my books"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"I do not weep at the world; I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump!"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear!"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Gods always love the people who make 'em"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

"There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

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