Shanghai/history

Famous quotes containing the words shanghai and/or history:

“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
—Jules Furthman (1888–1960)

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)