Flash Gordon Strange

Famous quotes containing the words flash gordon, flash, gordon and/or strange:

    “What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hideyhole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luck Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there’s a message there, I don’t think I want to hear it.”
    —Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    “Here lies a man who was killed by lightning;
    He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.
    He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble,
    But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.”
    —Anonymous. From Booth, Epigrams Ancient and Modern (1863)

    “Nothing can confound
    A wise man more than laughter from a dunce.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Don’t accept rides from strange men,
    and remember that all men are as strange as hell.”
    —Robin Morgan (b. 1941)