screen quotes

Iseriouslyobjecttoseeingonthescreenwhat belongs in the bedroom.

- Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz Goldwyn
Attributed maxim. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (9th edn,1989).

Cette cloison qui nous se  pare du myste'  re des choses et que nous appelons la vie. Life is a screen which separates us from the mystery of things.

-Victor Marie Hugo
  Les Mise  rables, vol.1, bk.1, ch.2.

Se comprende muy bien que el advenimiento del cinemato  grafo haya sido para m | el comienzo de un nueva era, por la cual cuento las noches sucesivas en que he salido mareado y pa  lido del cine, porque he dejado mi corazo  n†en la pantalla que impregno   por tres cuartos de hora el encanto de BrownieVernon. It is easy to understand that, for me, cinema was the beginning of a newera which marked my nights, oneafter the other, as I left the theatre, dizzyand pale after leaving my heart on thescreen†on that screen that for forty-five minutes was impregnated by BrownieVernon's charm.

- Horacio Quiroga
Anaconda,'Miss Dorothy Phillips, mi esposa' ('Miss Dorothy Phillips, MyWife').

The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.

- George P(ratt) Shultz
  Of summit meetings, particularly that between the US and the Soviets at Reykjavik, Iceland, 9^12 Oct1986. Turmoil and Triumph.