Duke Ellington Quotes

Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

I don't think I'm like Shakespeare.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

My Facebook page confuses a lot of people. I'll post a Beyoncé Knowles song, and, people are like, "What are you doing?! This is bullshit," and I'm like, "No! Beyoncé is the Linda Ronstadt of our day, you don't understand!"

One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!