Active Service

Famous quotes containing the words active and/or service:

“He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sweet established nouns to send marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)

“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)