Famous quotes containing the words ann, landers, interim, writers and/or october:
“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I don’t believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.”
—Ann Landers (b. 1918)
“If I be left behind,
A moth of peace, and he go to the war,
The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
And I a heavy interim shall support
By his dear absence. Let me go with him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The difference between human vision and the image perceived by the faceted eye of an insect may be compared with the difference between a half-tone block made with the very finest screen and the corresponding picture as represented by the very coarse screening used in common newspaper pictorial reproduction. The same comparison holds good between the way Gogol saw things and the way average readers and average writers see things.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)