Irwin Shaw Quotes

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

Irwin Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1913 - May 16, 1984

Topics

LifeYourselfWritingYouFind

You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.

John Brough

FreeYouSideAnythingSlaveThings

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

John Gunther

HappinessBreakfastDependsLeisurely

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

Jennifer Hale

ExperienceGrowing UpGrowingMore

I like new technology.

Anderson Cooper

TechnologyNewNew TechnologyLike

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Robert Green Ingersoll

TodayManNewFollowOldCriminal

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

Michael Bennet

JusticeDoneDisappointedAgainst

If there's ever a moment when I am an Anglophile, it's when I see so many theatres in this country that have what I would call federal funding.

Stephen Karam

MomentI AmCountrySeeI SeeCall

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Rob Lowe

AttentionWayNeedAlwaysCatch

Everybody thought of me as Arnold Horshack. I resented Horshack for so many years.

Ron Palillo

MeThoughtYearsEverybodyMany

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

LionUnderstandTalkHimCould

Obviously, my daughter's my priority, so if you want to have plans with me and then my daughter calls, then I'm going to have to go with her.

Juan Pablo Galavis

GoodDaughterHeartMeSayingProud

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

Douglas Brinkley

MoonEagleLadderBecomeOldFirst

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