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  • Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

    Men   Play   Hunters  
    Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.34, New Directions Publishing
  • Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.

    Dog   Mistake   Struggle  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1642, Manonmani Publishers
  • The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.

    Glasses   Cities   Pieces  
    Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.97, New Directions Publishing
  • In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

    Crazy   Character   Years  
  • The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

  • People go to the movies instead of moving.

    Tennessee Williams (2014). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.61, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judged by the number of diseases from which he escapes. The value of a man is in his human qualities: in his character, in his conscience, in the nobility and magnanimity, of his soul. Torturing animals to prolong human life has separated science from the most important thing that life has produced - the human conscience.

    Character   Animal   Men  
  • A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder.

    Numbers   Body   Emotion  
  • For time is the longest distance between two places.

    Time   Distance   Two  
    The Glass Menagerie (1945) p. 123
  • Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.

    Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.79, New Directions Publishing
  • Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

    Girl   Nice   Cutting  
    Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.17, New Directions Publishing
  • Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

    Animal   Men   Stirring  
    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

    Dream   Struggle   Heart  
    Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.143, Bantam
  • Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against their neighbours, blood red, royal blue, gypsy yellow, grass green. The birds were crammed along perches. Macaws hung upside down here and there, batting their white eyes, and small green parrots flittered above our heads in drifts. A hot of cockatoos looked down from on high over the shrill madness, high crested, creamy breasted. The screeching was like laughter in hell.

    Laughter   Eye   Yellow  
  • We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,” Leo retorted. “After that, he said he needed to think.” “About what?” Beatrix demanded. “What is there to think about? Why is it taking him so long to make a decision?” “He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.

    Men   Thinking   Long  
    Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.214, Macmillan
  • ....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.

    Beach   Wind   Way  
    Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.20, Bantam
  • Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

    Glasses   Matter   Break  
    Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.86, New Directions Publishing
  • Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

    Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.78, New Directions Publishing
  • Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

    Animal   Men   Soul  
  • I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?

    Running   Sex   Heart  
  • I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

  • Things have a way of turning out so badly.

    Destiny   Way   Menagerie  
    Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.94, New Directions Publishing
  • The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the menagerie of saints and dragons must be faithfully recalled.

  • I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.

    Dog   Cat   Animal  
  • Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze.

    Family   Party   Food  
  • To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.

    School   Eye   Class  
    Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.5, New Directions Publishing
  • attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.

    Space   Lost   Menagerie  
    Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.12, New Directions Publishing
  • An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

    Book   Character   Mean  
  • Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

    Vocabulary   Race   Ducks  
    "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". www.independent.co.uk. August 12, 2010.
  • Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.

    Drama   Angel   Glasses  
    "Angels on the Verge" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.
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