Famous quotes containing the words golden, globe, award, motion, picture, musical and/or comedy:
“She stood breast high amid the corn,
Claspd by the golden light of morn,”
—Thomas Hood (17991845)
“The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (18951985)
“... The festival-colored brightness
That is their motion ...”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“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)
“The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities were born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.”
—Christopher Fry (b. 1907)