Scene

Famous quotes containing the word scene:

    An age is the reversal of an age:
    When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,
    We lived like men that watch a painted stage.
    What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:
    It had not touched our lives.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    This scene was supposed to be in a saloon, but the censor cut it out. It’ll play just as well.
    Otis Criblecoblis, U.S. screenwriter. W.C. Fields (W.C. Fields)

    Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)