Famous quotes containing the words flash gordon, flash, gordon and/or strange:
“Tom: All right, boys. Cmon. Why dont you say Im a yellow belly and a big mouth at that?
Shep: You yellow? Who thinks youre yellow? Did you hear what he said? A guy whos got the nerve to marry? Thats more than Flash Gordon ever did.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“The legislator must be in advance of his age.
Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
“Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens ... to stumble upon it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“Through the certain prospect of death, a precious, sweet- smelling drop of levity might be mixed into every lifebut now you strange pharmacist-souls have turned it into a foul-tasting drop of poison through which all life is made repulsive.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)