stage quotes

• Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. (Theodore Dreiser) [stage/instinct/human]
• Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. (Antonin Artaud) [stage/life]
• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. (Walter Benjamin) [//stage]
• A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. (Bertolt Brecht) [stage/people]
• Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. (Marcus Cicero) [stage/human/life/age]
• Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. (Auguste Comte) [knowledge/stage/stage/stage]
• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age -- which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. (Noel Coward) [stage/age]
• On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. (Janis Joplin) [stage/love/people/housing]
• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. (Karl Kraus) [/disease/stage/virtue]
• The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season). (Milan Kundera) [change/europe/stage/development]
• Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [philosophy/philosophy/stage/life]
• Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. (Alexander Pope) [willpower/age/stage/more]
• A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. (William Shakespeare) [shadow/stage/more]
• When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools. (William Shakespeare) [stage]
• Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage. (George Bernard Shaw) [life/disease/stage/disease]
• Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. (George Bernard Shaw) [desire/stage]
• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. (Orson Welles) [stage/form]
• The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. (Oscar Wilde) [stage]
• The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. (Oscar Wilde) [stage/meeting/art/life]
• Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and... I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks. (Nicole Kidman) [film/role/stage]
• The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players. (Anna Kournikova) [stage/people/love]
• It seemed like it was a long time ago, like a lot of things have happened to me. Walking back on the stage where you've been so successful, it's a lot of pressure on you. But you also know you've had a lot of success in the past, playing the finals here over and over. Tonight, it worked, and all I can say is it feels great to be back out there. (Martina Hingis) [time/stage/past]
• I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go ... There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life. (Tina Turner) [stage/time/life]
• I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left. (Stevie Nicks) [time/time/stage/essence]
• If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? (Stevie Nicks) [stage/wonder]
• I like to show off when I'm on stage, but I don't like to show on, like, 'Come in and check it out. Look how rich I am.' That's not my style. ( Madonna) [stage/look/literary style]
• It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling. (LaToya Jackson) [strange/stage/night/people]
• I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be. (Christina Aguilera) [stage]
• My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform. (Avril Lavigne) [stage/night]
• People always tell me, 'Don't work so much', but I can't help it. I feel like all the things I've done are important to get to this adult stage and now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working. (Kirsten Dunst) [people/stage]
• [And being on stage together as presenters] was great, ... And to have the energy of MC Hammer right before us! We were Hammer fans. (Jessica Alba) [being/stage/right]

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