Edgar Whitcomb/early Life

Famous quotes containing the words edgar, whitcomb, early and/or life:

    “You hear that, Vitus? The phone is dead. Even the phone is dead.”
    —Peter Ruric, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Edgar G. Ulmer. Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff)

    “A-list’nin’ to the witch-tales ‘at Annie tells about,
    An’ the Gobble-uns ‘at gits you
    Ef you
    Don’t
    Watch
    Out!”
    —James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)

    “Parents ... are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfil the promise of their early years.”
    —Anthony Powell (b. 1905)

    “Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)