Main Event Match

Famous quotes containing the words main event, main, event and/or match:

    “I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    “So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism—despotism during the campaign—is indispensable.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “The event combined with
    Beams leading up to it for the look of force adapted to the wiser
    Usages of age, but it’s both there
    And not there, like washing or sawdust in the sunlight,
    At the back of the mind, where we live now.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “One fairer than my love! The all-seeing sun
    Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)