February 2022 Crossword: Quote Attribution Theme
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Across:
2. “I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more _______ ”
5. “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child” speaker
11. Musician who gave the advice, “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there”
12. Movie star who said “Elegance is the only beauty that never fades”
14. “I want to be alone!” exclaimer of Old Hollywood
15. Poet who wrote “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream”
16. “Here’s looking at you, kid” speaker
17. “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth” speaker
18. Musician who claimed “We’re more popular than Jesus now”
19. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not _____ well” -Virginia Woolf
20. Writer who joked, “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying”
Down:
1. “I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken away from me” speaker
3. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” writer
4. Artist who said “The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad”
6. Dr. Strangelove line that goes “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the _______!”
7. First lady who said “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
8. Show with the line “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
9. Originator of the line “Be the change you want to see in the world”
10. “Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a ‘lamp’; not a woman, but a ‘woman’” writer
13. “If you lead a country like Britain… you have to have a touch of iron about you” speaker
Answer Key:
Across
2) Cowbell
5) Picasso
11) Miles Davis
12) Audrey Hepburn
14) Greta Garbo
15) Sylvia Plath
16) Rick
17) Lou Gehrig
18) John Lennon
19) Dined
20) Oscar Wilde
Down:
1) Nelson Mandela
3) James Baldwin
4) Salvador Dali
6) War Room
7) Eleanor Roosevelt
8) Monty Python
9) Gandhi
10) Susan Sontag
13) Margaret Thatcher
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