1310 quotes by dramatists for you to enjoy

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime. David Mamet

Great Crime Country Every Back Great Country Possession Clock Roll Started

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. David Mamet

Cowardly Only Lazy Afraid Being Being Lazy Things Two

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. David Mamet

Myself Political Liberal Back Logically Some Superiority Could Look Sort Another Exercise Political Beliefs Wonder Rewarding Describe Beliefs

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. David Mamet

Films Drama Carnival Thrills Operation Offer Original Amusement

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble. David Mamet

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. David Mamet

Settlers East About Seems Through Football Putting Ball Opponent Line Goal Truly Scores Westward American Move Native Want Native Americans American Football Soccer Land Resemble

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit. David Mamet

Matters Nothing Every Spirit Idea Human Nothing Matters Human Spirit

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. David Mamet

Government Best Man Honest Man Will Practice Politicians Rich Nothing Believe Too Elsewhere Everything Out Religious Something No-One Observe Venue Go Up Gets Just Expensive Confined Poor Might Honest

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. David Mamet

World Find Threaten Terrifying Which Us

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. David Mamet

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead. David Mamet

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law. David Mamet

Government People Law Black Black And White Example White Monstrous Must Ability Somehow Determined Given Only Both Absurd For Example Knows Than Fewer Anyone Acquainted Preferences Certain Assessment