Famous quotes containing the words lincoln, center and/or theater:
“[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.”
—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)