Famous quotes containing the words motion, musical, picture, golden, actress, award, globe and/or comedy:
“till disproportiond sin
Jarrd against natures chime, and with harsh din
Broke the fair musick that all creatures made
To their great Lord, whose love their motion swayd
In perfect Diapason, whilst they stood
In first obedience, and their state of good.”
—John Milton (16081674)
“Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at hateful ragtime no longer passes for musical culture.”
—Scott Joplin (18681917)
“... everybody who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter or draw a picture or sing, or make a dress or a garden.”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)
“A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely
sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze!”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”
—Marilyn Monroe (19261962)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (18951985)
“O my true love, hold me.
In your every inch and glance is the globe of genesis spun,
And the living earth your sons.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”
—Monty Pythons Flying Circus. first broadcast Sept. 22, 1970. Michael Palin, in Monty Pythons Flying Circus (BBC TV comedy series)