John Knox/confinement in The French Galleys 1547-1549

Famous quotes containing the words knox, confinement and/or french:

    “Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it.”
    —John Gilling, British screenwriter. Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing)

    “We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)

    “The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)