Archive for September, 2007

Marcel Marceau quotes

 Quotes by and about Marcel Marceau 

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth… I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the [...]

911

“Terrorism against our nation will not stand.”
- George W. Bush - Remarks at Emma Booker Elementary School. Sarasota, Florida - delivered 11 September 2001, 9:30 A.M. EDT
“Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will [...]

autumn quotes / fall quotes

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus
For man, [...]

Quotes by the late Merv Griffin

If you make the customer a promise… make sure you deliver it.
Merv Griffin
Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.
Merv Griffin
Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don’t ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.
Merv Griffin
That I would rather [...]

Christopher Columbus Day

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner’s heart.  That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.  ~Charles Kendall Adams
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.  [...]