Young Snakes Playing

Famous quotes containing the words young, snakes and/or playing:

    Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.
    Wesley Strick, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Max Cady (Robert DeNiro)

    No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)