Famous quotes containing the words award, male, vocal and/or performance:
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (18951985)
“One of the most interesting and affecting things [on a difficult return march from a raid into Virginia] is the train of contrabands, old and young, male and femaleone hundred to two hundredtoiling uncomplainingly along after and with the army.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. Id have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldnt enjoy spending it.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be so loved, and the performance so loathed?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)