Famous quotes containing the words young, snakes and/or playing:
“When young one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one’s hands full just to be able to remove their trash.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.”
—Wesley Strick, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Max Cady (Robert DeNiro)
“The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)