Silent Film/elements 1894 - 1929

Famous quotes containing the words silent, film and/or elements:

    “O little town of Bethlehem,
    How still we see thee lie!
    Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
    The silent stars go by;
    Yet in thy dark streets shineth
    The Everlasting Light;
    The hopes and fears of all the years
    Are met in thee tonight.”
    —Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)

    “His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)