"`I grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.` What does that mean, Mr. Marlowe?"
"Not a bloody thing. It just sounds good."
He smiled. "That is from the `Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.` Here's another one. `In the room women come and go/Talking of Michael Angelo.' Does that suggest anything to you, sir?"
"Yeah -- it suggests to me that the guy didn't know very much about women."
"My sentiments exactly, sir. Nonetheless I admire T. S. Eliot very much."
"Did you say, 'nonetheless'?"
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
As someone told me lately: "Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!"...
He's there, the Phantom of the Opera!...
I dreamed a dream in time gone bye...
This is the moment! My final test!...
PS. Couldn't choose just one :-)
Also: this is a mistake many, many people make, but a Broadway baby, according to the song, is someone who in fact is a baby at doing the Broadway thing- new in town and hasn't gotten a job yet. Inexperienced. But the phrase has since acquired the meaning you're assigning to it as well, of someone who has been on Broadway since they were a baby or something like that.
"WHEN is the winter of our discontent?"
"NOW is the winter of our discontent!"
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