Famous quotes containing the words motion, drama and/or picture:
“The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“Its hard enough to write a good drama, its much harder to write a good comedy, and its hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.”
—Jack Lemmon (b. 1925)
“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set in. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)