Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. The Godfather Watch The Godfather at Amazon Watch The Godfather at Amazon Instagram sharing coming soon. Quote text and source copied to clipboard. Link to this quote copied to clipboard. More information about this quote Topic Death Speaker Peter Clemenza Actor Richard Castellano Source The Godfather Medium Film Genre Crime (film) Crime Statement Type Euphemism Language English Time 1972 1970s 20th century Authentication Score 3 More information on Authentication Score coming soon. Citation The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures/Alfran Productions, 1972. Citation text copied to clipboard.
Another quote from the 1970s Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. Susan Sontag Freak Show There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database. Show More Info Instagram sharing coming soon. Quote text and source copied to clipboard. Link to this quote copied to clipboard. More information about this quote Topic Modern art Power of art Art Author Susan Sontag Source Freak Show The New York Review of Books Medium Essay Magazine Language English Time 1973 1970s 20th century Authentication Score 3 More information on Authentication Score coming soon. Citation Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973. Citation text copied to clipboard. Show Less Info
Another quote about Death I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. Homer The Odyssey Show More Info Buy The Odyssey at Amazon Buy The Odyssey at Amazon Read The Odyssey at MIT's classics department website Instagram sharing coming soon. Quote text and source copied to clipboard. Link to this quote copied to clipboard. More information about this quote Topic Slavery Death Author Homer Source The Odyssey Medium Poem Genre Epic poem Language Greek Time 700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC Era Classical antiquity Authentication Score 2 More information on Authentication Score coming soon. Original Citation Homer. Ὀδύσσεια [Odyssey]. c. 710 BC, bk. 11, l. 489-491. Original citation text copied to clipboard. Current Citation Homer. The Odyssey, edited by Bernard Knox, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2006, bk. 11, l. 489-491. Current citation text copied to clipboard. Show Less Info