Hot Seat Contestant

Famous quotes containing the words hot, seat and/or contestant:

    “It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    “He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “Ashtrays to cry into,
    the suffering brother of the wood walls,
    the forty-eight keys of the typewriter
    each an eyeball that is never shut,
    the books, each a contestant in a beauty contest,
    the black chair, a dog coffin made of Naugahyde....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)