Famous quotes containing the words silent film, silent, film and/or elements:
“Marriage isn’t a word—it’s a sentence.”
—Caption from King Vidor’s silent film. The Crowd (1926)
“Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”
—Katharine Hepburn (b. 1909)
“Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)