Famous quotes containing the words lincoln, center and/or theater:
“Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The Miss America contest is ... the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.”
—Gerald Early (b. 1952)