Famous quotes containing the words lucy, fictional, character and/or biography:
“Lucy: I know I’ll enjoy Oklahoma City.
Jerry: But, of course. And if it should get dull, you can always go to Tulsa for the weekend.”
—Vina Delmar, U.S. novelist, playwright. Lucy (Irene Dunne)
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.”
—Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
“PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)