1,895 Quotes About Moments

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

The characters' lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you've killed them off.

Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite it if I wanted to. Up until that point, I'm so involved with the experience of having written the play, and the nature of it, that I can't see what faults it might have. The only moment of clear objectivity that I can find is at the moment of critical heat - of self-critical heat when I'm actually writing.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.