“Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Joining You
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)
“Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Surrender
Oscar Zeta Acosta book Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Source: Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972), p. 78.
Omar Bradley (1893–1981) United States Army field commander during World War II
Source: A Soldier's Story (1951), p. 483.
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
"The Unknown God" (1913) http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/350.html <br class="br">Context: Far up the dim twilight fluttered<br>Moth-wings of vapour and flame:<br>The lights danced over the mountains,<br>Star after star they came. The lights grew thicker unheeded,<br>For silent and still were we;<br>Our hearts were drunk with a beauty<br>Our eyes could never see.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) Shah of Iran
As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 236
Attributed
Lewis Buzbee (1957) American writer
Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Salon interview (1997)