21 Quotes by John Casey

It wasn't fair that men got the verbs and she ended up with adjectives. Jack plotted and squeezed and bulldozed. She was caught snooping—pathetic participle, half verb, half adjective.

I don't kid myself into thinking I'm the reason people are there.

carefully consider the submarine design construction life cycle support capabilities inherent with Electric Boat and the unique synergy between Electric Boat and New London Submarine Base....

I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor's concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.

I went to a party recently that some of the students gave, ... and I sat around, trying to keep quiet for the first hour. And finally some of them said to me, 'What was it like 30 years ago'? And I started telling a few things that happened and I realized that was a complete mistake. They just sort of hung their heads and said, 'God, we're so dull.'

Jenny was the emcee. Marty would come out playing a plastic banjo, and they would do stage plays.

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel.

We're delighted to have this relationship with a not-for-profit health care network that has been serving the Rio Grande Valley so well for 80 years.

We can all agree this was a tragedy that occurred, and we all wish we could take it back.