Famous quotes containing the words action and/or figure:
“If, from the very first, the action of the play is absurd, it is because this is the way mad Waltzbefore the play startsimagines it is going to be....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)
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