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)

    “The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “When Love’s delirium haunts the glowing mind,
    Limping Decorum lingers far behind.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    ““What I want is a strange conjunction with you—” he said quietly; “Mnot meeting and mingling;Myou are quite right:Mbut an equilibrium, a pure balance of two single beings:Mas the stars balance each other.””
    —D.H. (David Herbert)