Famous quotes containing the words bernard, marshall, gordon, professional and/or life:
“There is something in you that I respect, and that makes me desire to have you for my enemy.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Robert Whitmore
died of apoplexy
when a stranger from Georgia
mistook him
for a former Macon waiter.”
—Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)
“I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American—on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.”
—Günther Grass (b. 1927)