Famous quotes containing the words jerry, theatrical and/or short:
“Who talks of Platos spindle;
What set it whirling round?
Eternity may dwindle,
Time is unwound,
Dan and Jerry Lout
Change their loves about.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“January, month of empty pockets!... Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producers forehead.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (18731954)
“Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon. Ill tell you what, sir, he said; the talent of this child is not to be imagined. She must be seen, sirseento be ever so faintly appreciated.... The infant phenomenon, though of short stature, had a comparatively aged countenance, and had moreover been precisely the same agenot perhaps to the full extent of the memory of the oldest inhabitant, but certainly for five good years.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)