Famous quotes containing the words ben, day and/or dots:
“Mrs. Robinson, youre trying to seduce me. Arent you?”
—Calder Willingham, screenwriter, Buck Henry, screenwriter, and Mike Nichols. Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman)
“So this
Is man; sowhat better conclusion is there
The day will not follow night, and the heart
Of man has a little dignity, but less patience
Than a wolfs,”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasnt there something reassuring about it!that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one anothers eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atomsnothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)