quotes about drama starters

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ~Andre Maurois, BBC-TV, January 1958



But that won't give me a free hand to hold the beer. ~Billy Carter, while being taught a two-handed backhand shot



Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. ~Charles Caleb Colton



To err is human, to purr is feline. ~Robert Byrne



When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen



My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, "So? Did you learn anything today?" But not my mother. "Izzy," she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist. ~Isidor Isaac Rabi



Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~Anais Nin



Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. ~Charles Wagner



To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~Buddha



Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. ~Diane Ackerman



A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. ~Author Unknown



A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. ~Mere



The part can never be well unless the whole is well. ~Plato



If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb



I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. ~William Shakespeare



Beer is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. ~Homer Simpson



Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell



Learning without thought is labor lost. ~Confucius



Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato. ~Jason Love