Famous quotes containing the words line, character and/or recognition:
“When all this is over, you know what Im going to do? Im gonna get married, gonna have about six kids. Ill line em up against the wall and tell them what it was like here in Burma. If they dont cry, Ill beat the hell out of em.”
—Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter, and Milton Sperling. Samuel Fuller. Barney, Merrills Marauders (1962)
“Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with mans recognition of his own negative potentialwith his sense of what he is capable of.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
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