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)

    Those deprived of such friends rejoice; those who have them pray to escape them.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    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)