Famous quotes containing the words flash gordon, flash, gordon and/or strange:
“Tom: All right, boys. Cmon. Why dont you say Im a yellow belly and a big mouth at that?
Shep: You yellow? Who thinks youre yellow? Did you hear what he said? A guy whos got the nerve to marry? Thats more than Flash Gordon ever did.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“The point of the dragonflys terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows, is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesnt ... but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the worlds water and weather, the worlds nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climates sultry.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“This strange thing must have crept
Right out of hell.
It resembles a birds foot
Worn around the cannibals neck.”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)