Famous quotes by Playwrights

"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner"

John Guare, Playwright

"I mean, New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes"

John Guare, Playwright

"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet"

John Guare, Playwright

"Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York"

John Guare, Playwright

"Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century"

John Guare, Playwright

"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet"

John Guare, Playwright

"And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present"

John Guare, Playwright

"All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs"

John Guare, Playwright

"I don't feel any older now than when I was 70"

John Patrick, Playwright

"Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture"

John Patrick, Playwright

"To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give"

Tristan Bernard, Playwright

"The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture"

John Patrick, Playwright

"There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist"

John Patrick, Playwright

"Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users, but that represents a tiny percentage of users"

John Patrick, Playwright

"Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven"

Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright

"Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents"

Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright

"Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, 'Respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up', and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death"

Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright

"The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages"

Cyrano de Bergerac, Playwright

"A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man"

Cyrano de Bergerac, Playwright

"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"Art must take reality by surprise"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help"

Jean Kerr, Playwright

"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks"

Jean Kerr, Playwright

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