Richard Montgomery High

Famous quotes containing the words richard, montgomery and/or high:

    Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.
    Donald Freed, U.S. screenwriter, and Arnold M. Stone. Robert Altman. Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall)

    Hay! now the day dawis;
    The jolie Cok crawis;
    Now shroudis the shawis,
    Throw Natur anone.
    The thissell-cok cryis
    On lovers wha lyis.
    Now skaillis the skyis:
    The nicht is neir gone.
    —Alexander Montgomery (1540?–1610?)

    The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)