Promoter Escape Transition

Famous quotes containing the words promoter, escape and/or transition:

    “What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice—the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

    “Fine vapors escape from whatever is doing the living.
    The night is cold and delicate and full of angels
    Pounding down the living. The factories are all lit up,
    The chime goes unheard.
    We are together at last, though far apart.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? what was my purpose? Surely, it wasn’t just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.”
    —Wilma Rudolph (1940–1994)