Famous quotes containing the word perform:
“For Afro-Americans, it could be argued that every year they’ve spent in this country since they arrived in chains to perform forced labor has been 1984.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
That’s Ophelia, that Cordelia;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)