Famous quotes containing the words action and/or figure:
“If, from the very first, the action of the play is absurd, it is because this is the way mad Waltzbefore the play startsimagines it is going to be....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
Related Phrases
Related Words