Famous quotes containing the words quinn, chapel, ame, church and/or louis:
“In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isnt working, hes a bum.”
—Anthony Quinn (b. 1915)
“I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And Thou shalt not writ over the door;”
—William Blake (17571827)
“Madame, withouten many wordes,
Ons I ame sure ye will or no;
And if ye will, then leve your bordes,
And use your wit and shew it so.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?1542)
“The church is a sort of hospital for mens souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)