Scene

Famous quotes containing the word scene:

“‘Twas that friends, the belov’d of my bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

“This fantastic state of mind, of a humanity that has outrun its ideas, is matched by a political scene in the grotesque style, with Salvation Army methods, hallelujahs and bell-ringing and dervishlike repetition of monotonous catchwords, until everybody foams at the mouth. Fanaticism turns into a means of salvation, enthusiasm into epileptic ecstacy, politics becomes an opiate for the masses, a proletarian eschatology; and reason veils her face.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)