Famous quotes containing the words time, thin, blood, vampire and/or masquerade:
“Tony Camonte: Hey, what’s all the time bitin’ you? You afraid of me?
Poppy: Well, that outfit is enough to give anybody the yips.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“In the thin classroom, where your face
was noble and your words were all things,
I find this boily creature in your place....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Blackberries
Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes
Ebon in the hedges, fat
With blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers.
I had not asked for such a blood sisterhood; they must love me.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two—
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)