Robin Hood Hastings

Famous quotes containing the words robin hood, robin, hood and/or hastings:

    It does make a big difference, it is why Robin Hood lives,
    crime if you know the reason if you know the motive
    if you can understand the character if it is not a
    normal one is not interesting a crime in itself is
    not interesting it is only there and when it is there
    everybody has to take notice of it. It is important
    in that way but in every other way it is not
    important.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
    —Leo Robin (b. 1900)

    A yeman hadde he and servantz namo
    At that tyme, for hym liste ride so,
    And he was clad in cote and hood of grene.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    Janie works hard, of course, and she’s a good wife and mother, but do you know she’s never once made a gingerbread house with her children?
    —Mildred Hastings (b. 1924)