Famous quotes containing the words royal, arch and/or degree:
“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (19101986)
“Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell
Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red
Reverberance of hail upon the dead
Thunder like an exploding crucible!”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isnt first degree murder; in fact, it isnt even murder; in fact, I dont know what it is.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
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