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“Yet you could feel the vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, an inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the Gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hand and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“François Truffault: Mr. Hitchcock, you were born in London on August 13, 1899. The only thing I know about your childhood is the incident at the police station. Is that story true?
Alfred Hitchcock: Yes, it is. I must have been about four or five years old. My father sent me to the police station with a note. The chief of police read it and locked me in a cell for five to ten minutes, saying, "This is what we do to naughty boys.”
― Hitchcock/Truffaut
Alfred Hitchcock: Yes, it is. I must have been about four or five years old. My father sent me to the police station with a note. The chief of police read it and locked me in a cell for five to ten minutes, saying, "This is what we do to naughty boys.”
― Hitchcock/Truffaut
“A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.”
― World Order
― World Order
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