Famous quotes containing the words martin, competing, protestant and/or confessions:
“Francine Evans: That seats taken.
Jimmy Doyle: I know its taken. But Im gonna sit here and Im gonna figure out another angle.”
—Earl MacRauch, U.S. screenwriter, Mardik Martin, and Martin Scorsese. Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli)
“The first wrote, Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.”
—Apocrypha. 1 Esdras, 3:10-12.
Referring to three young men of the bodyguard of Darius, king of the Persians, competing for his favor.
“blow as he would, though it made a great noise,
The flute would play only The Protestant Boys.”
—Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 2324)
“My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, but intellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.”
—W.N.P. Barbellion (18891919)