Famous quotes containing the words man, iron, mask, the and/or prisoner:
“A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.”
—Demosthenes (c. 384–322 B.C.)
“Wilmer Cook: Keep on riding me, they’re gonna be picking iron out of your liver.
Sam Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
—John Huston (1906–1987)
“I met Murder on the way—
He had a mask like Castlereagh.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)