Flash Gordon Strange

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

    Tom: All right, boys. C’mon. Why don’t you say I’m a yellow belly and a big mouth at that?
    Shep: You yellow? Who thinks you’re yellow? Did you hear what he said? A guy who’s got the nerve to marry? That’s more than Flash Gordon ever did.
    Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 10:18.

    I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    Ideals possess the strange quality that if they were completely realized they would turn into nonsense. One could easily follow a commandment such as “Thou shalt not kill” to the point of dying of starvation; and I might establish the formula that for the proper functioning of the mesh of our ideals, as in the case of a strainer, the holes are just as important as the mesh.
    Robert Musil (1880–1942)