"A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse."

Death, Family

23

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse."

Exlpore more Death quotes

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Death, Knowledge, Belief, Ambition

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Death, Success, Being

"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"Red sky at night, the city's alight."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Happiness

"The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Death, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Death, Power, Truth, Happiness, Today

"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Death, Power, Wisdom, Future, Happiness

"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Death, Truth, Fear, Philosophy

"Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Death, Love, Promise, Eternity

Explore more quotes by Patrick Marber

"Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it."

Soul

"I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion."

Power

"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."

Film

"I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent."

Heart

"Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated."

Recognition

"I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally."

Film

"Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level."

Art

"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."

Wrong

"I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic."

Man

"I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things."

Achievement