Flash Gordon Strange

Famous quotes containing the words flash, gordon and/or strange:

    New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody’s castle-roof perforated.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)