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Letter "S" » Shakespeare
«There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.»
Author: Ian Hart
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
a million, come up, eventually, internet, million, Monkeys, Shakespeare, thanks, The Complete, The Internet, typewriters
«Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.»
Author: Josephine Hull
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
play down, Shakespeare, sit down, tiring
«Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.»
«Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.»
«Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.»
«The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!»
«Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge,
Mind,
Thought,
Understanding,
Words
| Keywords:
human mind, intimate, introduces, introducing, in vain, out of place, Shakespeare, vain, workings
«Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
animal, baboon, baboons, belong to, claiming, cowed, cows, disgraceful, Shakespeare, single-mindedness, species, very well
«Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.»
«The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
characteristic, Chaucer, elevation, intensity, Milton, remoteness, Shakespeare, Spencer
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