Famous quotes containing the words adventures, superman, radio and/or fiery:
“The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“It’s men like you that make it difficult for people to understand one another.”
—Richard Fielding. Lee Sholem. Superman (George Reeves)
“England has the most sordid literary scene I’ve ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy’s writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They’re all scratching each other’s backs.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“For she had fiery blood
When I was young,
And trod so sweetly proud
As ‘twere upon a cloud,
A woman Homer sung....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)