Famous quotes containing the words central, disc and/or bore:
“The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“Eve: I’m afraid Mr. DeWitt would find me boring before too long.
Miss Caswell: You won’t bore him, honey. You won’t even get a chance to talk.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)