World Wide Wrestling

Famous quotes containing the words world, wide and/or wrestling:

    “The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Victorious men of earth, no more
    Proclaim how wide your empires are;
    Though you bind in every shore
    And your triumphs reach as far
    As night or day,
    Yet you, proud monarchs, must obey
    And mingle with forgotten ashes, when
    Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.”
    —James Shirley (1596–1666)

    “There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)