Alternate Powder Blue

Famous quotes containing the words alternate, powder and/or blue:

    “I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean,—roll!
    Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
    Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control
    Stops with the shore;”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)