Flash Gordon Strange

Famous quotes containing the words flash gordon, flash, gordon and/or strange:

    What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hideyhole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luck Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there’s a message there, I don’t think I want to hear it.
    Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    Tom: All right, boys. C’mon. Why don’t you say I’m a yellow belly and a big mouth at that?
    Shep: You yellow? Who thinks you’re yellow? Did you hear what he said? A guy who’s got the nerve to marry? That’s more than Flash Gordon ever did.
    Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    The vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want,
    With just enough of talent, and no more,
    To lengthen fetters by another fixed,
    And offer poison long already mixed.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    Isn’t it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?
    Stephanie Martson (20th century)