Orson Welles/europe 1948-1956

Famous quotes containing the words orson welles, welles and/or europe:

    Elsa Bannister: The Chinese say “It is difficult for love to last long; therefore one who loves passionately is cured of love, in the end.”
    Michael O’Hara: That’s a hard way of thinking.
    Elsa: There’s more to the proverb: “Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.”
    Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    Charles Foster Kane: Look, Mr. Carter. Here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn’t the Inquirer a three-column headline?
    Carter: News wasn’t big enough.
    Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)