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)

    “So, she will never leap up that way again, with the yellow flash of
    a mountain lion’s long shoot!”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
    And how to scale a fortress—or a nunnery.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “It is a strange life,
    patterned in fire and letters
    on the prison pavement.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)