Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or bank:
“We don’t want bores in the theatre. We don’t want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.”
—Dame Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)
“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)