Ugo Betti Quotes

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Ugo Betti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: February 4, 1892 - June 9, 1953

Topics

BusinessFreeFree WillWillObey

Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.

John C. McGinley

BeautifulMountainsYellowRoadYou

I forget to take care of Angie being so busy taking care of everyone else.

Angie Stone

BusyCareTake CareForgetEveryone

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored.

John Wooden

WinGameYouLoseSomebody

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

Stephen Hawking

StarsShadowPeopleEvenGalaxies

I used to get so stressed out before the fight, weeks out, because of how much weight I had to cut to get there.

Robert Whittaker

FightOutCutStressedUsedGet

I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.

Louis Sachar

ChangeTimeIdeasStartBookDesert

On the second half of 'Under Pressure,' I talk about my family, and there are voicemails on my phone from when I was on the road that actually make up the second half of the nine-minute song. I transcribe them and rap them as if I were my sister, my brother, or my father.

Logic

FamilyFatherBrotherSisterSong

Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

TimeReflectionDayProgressHelp

As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. 'Spring Awakening' kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams - beyond my wildest dreams.

Jonathan Groff

DreamsSpringGrowing UpQuestions

I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an immediate impact and make it unique. I'll probably always work with that formula; I just don't know how.

Britt Daniel

WorkImpactFeelUniqueKnowAlways

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

Anthony Braxton

MusicDisciplineWorldGiftUniverse

If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: 'Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press.'

Arthur Quiller-Couch

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