Famous quotes containing the words book, voice and/or actors:
“I know what say the fathers wise,
The Book itself before me lies,
Old Chrysostom, best Augustine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,
The death of each days life, sore labors bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great natures second course,
Chief nourisher in lifes feast.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
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