Famous quotes containing the words orson welles, welles, return and/or europe:
“I’ve always found it very sanitary to be broke.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“Everybody denies I am a genius—but nobody ever called me one!”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don’t always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our manoeuvres in our emergencies and longings.”
—Harold Brodkey (b. 1930)
“The city is recruited from the country. In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile. The city would have died out, rotted, and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields. It is only country which came to town day before yesterday, that is city and court today.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)