show quotes

There's No Business Like Show Business.

- Irving originally Israel Baline Berlin
  Title of song from the film  Annie GetYour Gun.

   The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

- Al Hirschfeld
  In the NewYork Times, 21  Jun.

   Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

- Carl Gustav Jung
Quoted in the Observer,19  Jul1975.

   In the established sense it issocially nil.Happy-go-lucky, don't-you-bother, we're-in-Australia. But there also seems to be no inside life of any sort: just a long lapse and drift. A rather fascinating indifference, a physical indifference to what we call soul or spirit. It's really a weird show.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Of  Australia. Letter, collected in  A Huxley (ed)  The Letters of D H Lawrence (1932).

The Last Picture Show.

- LarryJeff McMurtry
   Title of novel, subsequently filmed.

No woman has to prove herself a woman in the grim way a man has to prove himself a man. He must perform, or the show does not go on. Social convention is irrelevant. A flop is a flop.

- Heinz R(udolf) Pagels
  Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, ch.1,'Sex andViolence, or Nature and Art'.

The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazedand gazedbut little thought What wealth the show to me had brought.

-William Wordsworth
  'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 3 (published1807).