Famous quotes containing the words the world, biggest, dancer and/or world:
“In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“Its no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“Come, walk like this, the dancer said,
Stick you your toesstick in your head,
Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread
Your fingers thus extend;
The attitudes considered quaint,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes of others, of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)