Flash Gordon Strange

Famous quotes containing the words 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)

    Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,
    Sweet to the father is his first-born’s birth,
    Sweet is revenge—especially to women,
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law’s “Loyal Opposition,” so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)