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 theres a message there, I dont think I want to hear it.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“I think that in the swift white minds brain
Neurons flash images of a world
Undead and deathless, burgeoning again.
I think that Spring will come this way, unfurled.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“He scratched his ear, the infallible resource
To which embarrassed people have recourse.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“And who, in time, knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores
This gain of our best glory shall be sent,
Tenrich unknowing nations with our stores?
What worlds in thyet unformed Occident
May come refined with thaccents that are ours?”
—Samuel Daniel (c.15621619)