“I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!”
John Proctor
The Crucible (1953)
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playwright from the United States 1915–2005Related quotes
Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941–1996) Polish film director and screenwriter
As quoted in "Kieślowski's Many Colours" by Patrick Abrahamsson, in Oxford University Student newspaper (2 June 1995)
Context: I don't make biographical films … None of the films is about me. Not a single one. None. I have my life and I'll simply never tell anyone what part of me is in my films. I won't ever tell anyone about that, because I don't consider that to be anyone else's business but mine. Nobody will guess where and how and in what way I fill them with my own pains. And that's an intimate aspect of my work that I keep to myself. … I won't even tell my wife — ever.
Sufjan Stevens (1975) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
"The Only Thing"
Lyrics, Carrie and Lowell (2015)
Pete Doherty (1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist
"Lust of the Libertines"
Lyrics and poetry
Ed Sheeran (1991) English singer-songwriter and producer
You Need Me, I Don't Need You.
Song lyrics, + (2011)
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
Room Full Of Mirrors
Song lyrics, Rainbow Bridge (1971)
Context: I used to live in a room full of mirrors,
All I could see was me.
Then I take my spirit and I smash my mirrors,
And now the whole world is here for me to see,
Now I'm searching for my love to be.
Tracey Ullman (1959) English-born actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, author and businesswoman
Quoted by NPR http://www.npr.org/2016/10/28/499796182/british-comedian-tracey-ullman-brings-celebrity-impersonations-to-hbo in 2016, on what what drives her to do impersonations
James Mattis (1950) 26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United States Marine Corps general
After the invasion of Iraq -and after sending his tanks and artillery home- Mattis sent this message to the Iraqi leaders in every area his men served in, as quoted in Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) by Thomas E. Ricks; as excerpted in Armed Forces Journal (August 2006) http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/fiasco/
Lionel Richie (1949) American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor
My Destiny.
Song lyrics, Back to Front (1992)
“Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul
Vicarious tears or a single glance.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
"You Thought I Was That Type"
Context: Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul
Vicarious tears or a single glance.
And I swear to you by the garden of the angels,
I swear by the miracle-working icon,
And by the fire and smoke of our nights:
I will never come back to you.